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Grace Banks at Books and Beans on 21/11/13
Grace Banks will be at Book and Beans on Thursday 21st November signing copies of her new book, Aberdeenshire Folk Tales. The folklore of the North East provides a rich tapestry for the tales...
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Doris Calder at Waterstones, Liverpool One on 23/11/13
Doris Calder will be at Waterstones, Liverpool One on Saturday 23rd November from 2pm onwards, signing copies of her new book Skipping to School: Memoirs of a Liverpool Girlhood, 1937-1948. Skipping...
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Benjamin Franklin and his scientific experiments in London
Benjamin Franklin was already a renowned scientist when he arrived in London on his first diplomatic mission, having coined such terms as ‘battery’, ‘positive/negative’ and ‘charge’ through his...
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The Friday Digest 22/11/13
The Friday Digest brings you the best of the week's history news gathered from the experts: * November 22 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the...
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Zombies: the return of the dead in history
Prior to George A. Romero’s groundbreaking 1968 film Night of the Living Dead, the word ‘zombie’ was associated with the belief systems of West African communities in the Caribbean. But, according to...
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What lies within the mystic landscape of Aberdeenshire?
As you read this book you will step through a lovely and varied landscape - traversing the forested and mountainous terrain of the River Dee, then across to the rolling, gentler land surrounding the...
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Churchill's Hidden Years
Have you ever wondered what Churchill did in the First World War? Most people recall the Dardanelles. Some ask ‘Wasn’t he a soldier?’ But then they generally get stuck. I began to think about this and...
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The Gateshead Book of Days - A Lightbulb and a Lake
A Lightbulb and a Lake The first house ever to be lit by electric light was the home of the bulb's inventor, scientist Joseph Swan – and still stands, in a quiet corner of Gateshead. Now a private...
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Thanksgiving
Celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November, Thanksgiving is one of the most popular holidays in the US. It has a long history, but was not made an official holiday until 1863 when Abraham Lincoln...
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Lancashire Day
There’s nowt wrong wi’ Lancashire. The people are grand, the scenery is champion and the food just the stuff to warm the cockles of anybody’s heart. In fact, the County Palatine has every reason to...
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The Friday Digest 29/11/13
The Friday Digest brings you the best of the week's history news gathered from the experts: * Fifty years after his death, C.S. Lewis' name is to be added to 'Poets' Corner' in the South Transept of...
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Artists of the First and Second World Wars
‘Oh, but you should be an artist,’ says a character in Evelyn Waugh’s novel Brideshead Revisited, ‘I had one with my squadron during the last war, for weeks – until we went up the line.’ The...
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Arsenal FC: 127 Years of Football Glory
Ahead of its 127th anniversary, the visionaries who founded Arsenal Football Club in December 1886 would surely – were they still alive – be gratified to see their team top of both the Premier League...
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The Journey to recognition for the unsung war heroes of WWII - The Real...
In 1998, while deputy editor of a Staffordshire newspaper, I entered three names in an internet search engine.…Colin Grazier, Tony Fasson and Tommy Brown. Nothing came back. This weekend, some 15 years...
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Snobbery and socialites
Snobbery is now considered a rather outmoded and amusing social affliction that has been largely replaced by the status of wealth and or celebrity. For most people it’s almost impossible to imagine...
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The Friday Digest 06/12/13
* Anti-apartheid icon and South Africa's first black president, Nelson Mandela has died at the age of 95. Mandela was awarded The Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 and was internationally revered for his...
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The History Behind London's Crypts
London stank in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The Thames, full of sewage, flowed past streets covered in human and animal filth, and smoke from chimneys made the air more putrid. A...
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A Black Country Album
Press photographer Graham Gough has covered news, show business, society and animals in The Black Country for over 50 years. He has worked for numerous newspapers, most notably the Express and Star....
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Unity Mitford and meeting Hitler
The relationship between Unity Mitford and Adolf Hitler continues to fascinate readers even today but how did the paths of a socialite and a world leader happen to cross? For all Adolf Hitler’s...
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The Friday Digest 13/12/13
* Whilst photographs can offer us details about the past, there are also many potential problems of using them: here Elizabeth Miron discusses the perils of using photographs as historical...
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