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Gary Powell at London Guildhall Library on 12/02/15
Gary Powell will at the London Guildhall Library on Thursday 12th February from 6-8pm giving a talk and signing copies of his book, Death in Disguise: The Amazing True Story of the Chelsea Murders....
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John Ashdown-Hill at Dublin Cathedral on 12/02/15
John Ashdown-Hill will be at Dublin Cathedral on Thursday 12th February launching his new book, The Dublin King: The True Story of Edward Earl of Warwick, Lambert Simnel and the 'Princes in the...
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Britain after The Second World War
In 1954 the Second World War had been over for nine years. But in England you’d hardly have known it. The final phase of rationing only ended halfway through the year. In so many cities the damage of...
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The Friday Digest 16/01/15
This week's update features Napoleon's letter of surrender from Waterloo, the legacy of Magna Carta and the seven deadly sins. * Napoleon's letter of surrender from Waterloo is to go on public view...
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Q&A with Chris Nickson
Why write crime fiction? Crime fiction offers a good moral framework for a story, although it’s rarely just black and white. But it does offer a battlefield for the eternal struggle between good and...
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The remarkable history of Lichfield
The Lichfield Book of Days takes a day-by-day look at what has happened in the city through the centuries. For each of the 366 days of the year an informative, humorous, tragic or sometimes downright...
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The Friday Digest 23/01/15
This week's update features the 'Park of Monsters', bestiality in a time of smallpox and 'Kindle brain'. * Ethel Lang, the last Victorian and Britain's oldest person, has died at the age of 114. *...
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Dr Kathryn Hughes at Saltaire Bookshop on 25/02/15
Dr Kathryn Hughes will be at Saltaire Bookshop on Sunday 25th February from 7.00pm signing copies of her new book, Great War Britain Bradford: Remembering 1914-18. The First World War claimed...
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Dr Kathryn Hughes at Bradford Local Studies Library on 21/02/15
Dr Kathryn Hughes will be at Bradford Local Studies Library on Saturday 21st February from 11.30am holding a launch for her new book, Great War Britain Bradford: Remembering 1914-18. The First...
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Dr Kathryn Hughes at Waterstones, Bradford on 11/02/15
Dr Kathryn Hughes will be at Waterstones, Bradford on Wednesday 11th February from 5.30pm giving a talk and signing copies of her new book, Great War Britain Bradford: Remembering 1914-18. The...
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Chris Lloyd at Darlington Library on 21/02/15
Chris Lloyd will be at Darlington Library on Saturday 21st February from 2pm holding a launch for his new book, Darlington in 100 Dates. Experience 100 key dates that shaped Darlington’s history,...
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Chris Lloyd at Waterstones, Darlington on 21/02/15
Chris Lloyd will be at Waterstones, Darlington on Saturday 21st February from 12-2pm signing copies of his new book, Darlington in 100 Dates. Experience 100 key dates that shaped Darlington’s...
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Even to the Edge of Doom: a love that survived the Holocaust
In the summer of 1942 the SS has its first death camps up and running. It’s time to empty the Polish ghettos of every Jew who cannot be used as a work slave. In the Schiff family, William has his job,...
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Lucy Wood at Waterstones, Grimsby on 14/02/15
Lucy Wood will be at Waterstones, Grimsby on Saturday 14th February from 1.00pm signing copies of her new book, The Grimsby Book of Days. Taking you through the year day by day, The Grimsby Book of...
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A brief history of Sunderland
Present day Sunderland owes its size and importance to a period of spectacular growth during the Industrial Revolution involving industries such as iron and steel, pottery and glass making and, most...
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Four Lions escape in Grimsby Town Centre!
It’s the stuff of a Hollywood film script… lions escape from a circus ring and cause havoc in a town centre. But this is exactly what happened in Grimsby on March 7, 1991. Not one, but four of the...
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The Friday Digest 30/01/15
This week's update features the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Tudor gluttony and Churchill's funeral. * 27 January marked Holocaust Memorial Day and the 70th anniversary of the...
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Chichester in the 1960s
‘If you can remember the 1960s you weren’t there” runs a well-known maxim. Whether you were there or not, it was a decade irredeemably associated with permissive attitudes and the ripping out of the...
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Magna Carta: justice for all?
‘[Magna Carta is] the Bible of the English Constitution.’ - William Pitt the Elder, British Prime Minister, 1766–68 ‘The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human...
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From Night Flak to Hijack, Captain Reginald Levy DFC
My grandfather, Reginald Levy, led, as he himself expressed, an exciting and glamorous life but also one of hardships and great stress. More than once he was confronted with difficult to imagine...
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