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Spooky bingo from The History Press
We're not saying that spooky stories are clichéd but they do rely on certain tropes to build the tension and scare their audience. Next time you are reading one of our 'Haunted' books or watching an...
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Why do people enjoy reading true crime books?
Why do people enjoy reading true crime books? Believe it or not, this question has been deemed worthy of scientific research and studies conducted in 2010 by the University of Illinois suggest that...
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Dee La Vardera at Devizes Books, Handel House on 16/11/12
Dee La Vardera will be at Devizes Books, Handel House on Saturday 16th November signing copies of her new book, The Little Book of Wiltshire. The Little Book of Wiltshire is a repository of...
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BOOK REVIEW: The Duchess of Northumberland's Little Book of Poisons, Potions...
Combining the fascinating archive of the first Duchess of Northumberland with the expertise of Jane, the present duchess and the creator of the famous Poison Garden at Alnwick Castle, this gift book...
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The Friday Digest 01/11/13
* Five storms that shaped history - The current bad weather in the south of the UK prompted a discussion about moments in history shaped by storms. Historian Dan Snow recalls five of the most...
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The Woodvilles, were they really as bad as history makes out?
From 1437, when Richard Woodville, a mere knight, made a shocking match to the widowed Jacquetta, Duchess of Bedford, to 1492, when Queen Elizabeth Woodville breathed her last at Bermondsey Abbey, the...
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Richard O. Smith at WHSmith, Oxford on 16/11/13
Richard O. Smith will be at WHSmith, Oxford on Saturday 16th November from 11am-2pm, signing copies of his book, As Thick As Thieves: Foolish Felons & Loopy Laws. Dipping their stolen bucket of...
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Gill & Barry Griffin at Waterstones, Redditch on 16/11/13
Gill & Barry Griffin will be at Waterstones, Redditch on Saturday 16th November signing copies of their new book, A Very Unusual Air War: From Dunkirk to AFDU - the Diary and Log Book of Test...
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Operation Unthinkable - Churchill's Plans to Invade the Soviet Union
If you thought the Cold War between East and West reached its peak in the 1950s and 1960s, then think again. 1945 was the year when Europe was the crucible for a Third World War. So concerned was the...
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The Friday Digest 08/11/13
The Friday Digest brings you the best of the week's history news gathered from the experts: * The contribution of the US airmen imprisoned in Switzerland during the Second World War has finally been...
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Mary Jane Kelly- Jack the Ripper's final victim
Of all the Ripper’s victims, Mary Jane Kelly is the most enigmatic. Her death brought her to the notice of posterity, but her backstory remains shadowy and largely out-of-reach. She herself, having...
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BOOK REVIEW: Great War Fashion by Lucy Adlington
Great War Fashion opens the woman’s wardrobe in the years before the outbreak of war to explore the real woman behind the stiff, mono-bosomed ideal of the Edwardian Society lady draped in gossamer...
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Thoughts on war, peace and reconciliation
At the end of the First World War, when the American president Woodrow Wilson spoke of ‘the war to end all wars’, did the world actually believe it? After the loss of millions upon millions of men,...
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Why is commemoration important? Lucinda Gosling shares her thoughts...
Last month, I drove my eldest son up to York where I left him, with a duvet and minimal cooking skills, to embark upon three years of university education. We both shed a tear as we said goodbye, and,...
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Why is commemoration important? Lucy Adlington shares her thoughts...
At 11am on November 11th I was sitting at the window of a Victorian farmhouse looking out over a village duckpond. I wondered how people 95 years ago had felt, hearing of the armistice in 1918. I do...
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Q&A with Nicola Sly
Nicola Sly has a Masters Degree in forensic and legal psychology and currently teaches criminology to adult learners. She is the author of twenty-nine historic true-crime books, including regional and...
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The Friday Digest 15/11/13
* 15 Modern-day uses for poison rings - Poison rings were originally a sinister accessory with just enough room in the space beneath the jewel to hold a little arsenic to sprinkle over the king's...
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BOOK REVIEW: History's Narrowest Escapes by James Moore and Paul Nero
Did you know that Winston Churchill narrowly avoided assassination in the Second World War? Or that Prince Albert helped Britain avoid war with the United States in the nineteenth century from his...
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Dee La Vardera at Waterstones, Swindon on 23/11/13
Dee La Vardera will be at Waterstone, Swindon on Saturday 23rd November signing copies of her new book, The Little Book of Wiltshire. The Little Book of Wiltshire is a repository of intriguing,...
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Moustache styles for the discerning gentleman
A moustache is a facial statement that reeks of style, individuality and, in some unfortunate cases, soup. When you grow a moustache you’re not just covering a prominent overbite or bluffing the fact...
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