Jane Austen and Brothers at Sea Jane Austen’s life and work often sprang into my mind while I was writing Children at Sea. I imagined
We have a new festive video from Pen and Sword author, Jan Slimming. Enjoy!
Our final blog tour of 2020 has come to an end! We’ve loved seeing what bloggers thought of Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia by Samantha Morris.
Merry Christmas : Here’s my Reindeer message! Top Ten Things
Eleanor of Provence and the Founding of Parliament There is no cornerstone or date when parliament was founded. It arose in early thirteenth-century England because
Meet the Murrays The Family Behind the Jacobite Rising of 1715
Was King Arthur real? Looking at fact vs. fiction in evidence The figure of Arthur has fascinated people and evolved over hundreds of years. What
Who was Annie Smith Peck? Top 10 Facts You Didn’t Know about the 19th Century Suffragette and Mountaineer
The Birth of Extremism Creating Hitler’s Germany This book was one I wrote specifically to try and understand what led Germany to be ultimately responsible
Sir Cecil Clementi, Britain’s drugs-dealing colonial governor When the British Empire eventually banned its infamous export of Indian opium to China, it created a big
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