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Tony Buttler at the Jet Age Museum on 19/10/14
Tony Buttler will be at the Jet Age Museum on Sunday 19th October signing copies of his new book, The Design and Development of the Hawker Hunter: The Creation of Britain's Iconic Jet Fighter....
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Tim Barnard at Forest Green Rovers FC on 20/10/14
Tim Barnard will be at Forest Green Rovers FC on Monday 20th October signing copies of his new book, Something to Shout About: The History of Forest Green Rovers. Forest Green Rovers have risen...
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The people of the boats
During the weeks I was working on the boat I became familiar with all the boatmen who traded regularly along the canal. We would exchange greetings as they drifted by on their slow journeyings back...
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Fiona Collins at Waterstones, Piccadilly on 21/10/14
Fiona Collins will be at Waterstones, Piccadilly on Tuesday 21st October signing copies of her new book, Wrexham County Folk Tales. The county borough of Wrexham is rich in folklore, with an...
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The Bentley story
Fabled thundering Le Mans race cars ... dare-devil Bentley boys ... and the most luxurious sporting performance motor cars ever built. Laconically described as 'The fastest lorries in Europe' by the...
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The Friday Digest 03/10/14
This week's update features the trench coat's forgotten First World War origins, the oldest known work of art and literary Halloween costume ideas. * The trench coat's forgotten First World War...
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Riding with a phantom ...
Imagine yourself driving down a lonely country road at night – you’re alone with only the car radio and the dashboard lights for company. As you round a bend you see coming out of the blackness a...
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The lessons of Agatha Christie
As the author of nine murder mysteries who has dared follow in the illustrious footsteps of Agatha Christie, I am struck by the fact that the whodunnit 'formula' she invented and polished to...
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The First World War in bits and bobs
Alongside enlistment papers, photographs of men in military uniform, and letters written home from the Front, you may be surprised to find many other small and illuminating clues to the fact that your...
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The Friday Digest 17/10/14
This week's update features Viking hoards, concrete shipwrecks and Spanish flu. * Spanish flu: The deadly disease that killed more people than the First World War. * The French soldier’s room that...
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A note on the Battle of Blenheim
The enduring fascination of the Battle of Blenheim in August 1704, is that it was the very first time that a Briton, in this case John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, met and defeated in the most...
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Port Said Squadron
HMS Doris As aircraft from a coalition of nations take to the air over Syria, it coincides almost exactly with the 100th anniversary of another multi-national air force beginning operations in the...
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Ypres: the days before battle
The days before the First and Second Battle of Ypres differed greatly. First Ypres was characterised by manoeuvre and ‘the fog of war’. For commanders to build up a clear intelligence picture in what...
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Ypres: the historical background
The town of Ypres has a long history. There are reports that a community on its site was raided by the Romans in the first century BC. It was in the Middle Ages that Ypres became a prosperous city with...
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Maureen James at Huntingdon Library on 29/10/14
Maureen James will be at Huntingdon Library on Wednesday 29th October from 7-9pm talking about her new book, Cambridgeshire Folk Tales. Modern-suit Cambridgeshire is a county of diverse landscapes:...
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Cold War: East Anglia
What would life have been like in East Anglia, one of the UK’s most vulnerable regions, had the Cold War turned ‘hot’ and, as was feared in the 1950’s and 60’s, the Soviet Union launched a pre-emptive...
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Andrew Arnold at Waterstones, Sutton on 23/10/14
Andrew Arnold will be at Waterstones, Sutton on Thursday 23rd October from 6-7pm signing copies of his new book, Their Name Liveth for Evermore: Carshalton’s First World War Roll of Honour....
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Rebecca Hall at Middlesbrough Central Library on 24/10/14
Rebecca Hall will be at Middlesbrough Central Library on Friday 24th October from 7pm signing copies of her new book, Haunted Teesside. From unexplained sightings to the search for evidence of...
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Sally Dickson at Museum of Carpet bookshop on 24/10/14
Sally Dickson and the Kidderminster & District Archaeological & Historical Society will be at the Museum of Carpet bookshop on Friday 24th October launching their new book, Great War...
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Jonathan Walker at the Polish Hearth Club, London on 24/10/14
Jonathan Walker will be at the Polish Hearth Club, London on Friday 24th October giving a talk about his book, Operation Unthinkable: The Third World War: British Plans to Attack the Soviet Empire...
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