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Titanic II Gala Dinner
After the disastrous demise of Titanic in the deep icy waters of the North Atlantic you would think it might be a bad idea to attempt to replicate the original luxury liner and give her the same name....
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The Friday Digest 12/04/13
The Friday Digest brings you the best of the week's history news gathered from the experts: * This week, on 8th April, Baroness Margaret Thatcher died as a result of a stroke. As one of politics...
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Andy Nash, Somerset County Cricket Club chairman, looks back at a year in the...
Many people regard cricket as a religion, rather than a sport and the two share many similarities. In the first place, cricket is nearly as old as some religions, with the game thought to have begun...
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What makes someone a legend?
Legends, so my dictionary tells me, are plausible stories that neither tellers nor listeners necessarily believe. What a wonderful definition! The quality that makes a legend believable, and also...
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The Friday Digest 19/04/13
The Friday Digest brings you the best of the week's history news gathered from the experts: * This week, on 17th April, Baroness Margaret Thatcher's funeral took place with thousands of people...
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BOOK REVIEW: Hadrian's Wall: An Archaeological Walking Guide by Clifford Jones.
The Roman frontier of Hadrian’s Wall is an ever-popular destination for both walkers and those interested in the Roman remains. In this guide, the walker is taken on an archaeological adventure to both...
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The Friday Digest 26/04/13
The Friday Digest brings you the best of the week's history news gathered from the experts: * Tuesday marked a number of events on the calendar, including St. George's Day which celebrates the life...
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Is this the end of an era for Newcastle City Hall?
"Newcastle City Hall has no long term future” the headlines from the front page of the local newspaper screamed. This news rocked me to my core, the City Hall being the venue in...
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Digging into the bleak and beautiful history of Bury.
I have always taken the industrial town of Bury for granted, hardly looking beyond the surface of an area that has always been home to me. I didn’t realize just what a colourful and interesting...
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The Friday Digest 03/05/13
The Friday Digest brings you the best of the week's history news gathered from the experts: * The world premiere of The Great Gatsby took place in New York yesterday and public interest in F. Scott...
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Forget London, Cornwall always gets there first...
Although Cornwall is comparatively remote from London, one factor which was generally seen at a major disadvantage in previous centuries, the county can number several ‘firsts’ in various fields....
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Stephen Cooper at WFA Northants Branch on 11/07/13
Stephen Cooper will be appearing at the Ex-Servicemen's Club as the guest of the WFA Northants Branch on Thursday 11 July at 7.00 pm.. He will be discussing his book, The Final Whistle: The Great...
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Stephen Cooper at the War and Peace Revival on 20/07/13
Stephen Cooper will be appearing at RAF Westernhanger at the War and Peace Revival on Saturday 20 July at 9.30 am. He will be discussing his book, The Final Whistle: The Great War in Fifteen...
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Stephen Cooper at WFA Surrey Branch on 16/10/13
Stephen Cooper will be appearing at theCobham Day Centre as the guest of the WFA Surrey Branch on Wednesday 16 October at 7.00 pm. He will be discussing his book, The Final Whistle: The Great War in...
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The boys who won the war- a feature by Stephen Cooper
Six players in this Rosslyn Park 1909–10 team would be killed in the Great War. (Image from club archive) Much recent writing on the Great War has veered between the highest-ranked and the humble: a...
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Matthew Boulton and the Lunar Society
When, in the 21st century, we congratulate ourselves on the progress of humankind, it’s no bad thing to look back over 200 years to the Enlightenment. This was a time of intellectual discovery, of...
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The Friday Digest 10/05/13
The Friday Digest brings you the best of the week's history news gathered from the experts: * This is not strictly history related, but the news that Sir Alex Ferguson is going to retire at the end...
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Heaven and Hell from Dante to Dan Brown
Dante Aligheri's Inferno, the famous personal account of the author’s trip through hell to the centre of the earth, is incontrovertibly among the greatest works of fiction ever written. It is also a...
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Keep calm and carry on?
Keep Calm and Carry On? It’s a slogan we’ve lifted from our wartime past and adopted for the economic withering we face today. Despite the fact that it appears the poster itself was never actually...
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'The Cockleshell Heroes'- a daring WW2 raid by canoe deep into the heart of...
History Press author Dr Tom Keene (Cloak Of Enemies) was interviewed by Julia Bradbury on BBC I’s Countryfile programme last week on the shingle beach at Southsea, Portsmouth.It was a fitting location...
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