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Penny Hampson
Apr 16, 20236 min read
The Falmouth Packet Service
If you’re a reader of Regency historical fiction, you may perhaps have come across references to packet ships and wondered what they...
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Judith Arnopp
Apr 15, 20235 min read
Henry Tudor at Raglan Castle
At the start of the wars of the roses Margaret Beaufort was a relatively insignificant member of the house of Lancaster but after years...
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Sam Taw
Apr 14, 20235 min read
The Bronze Age Village of Grimspound
At the heart of Dartmoor, in the South West of England, lies an abandoned Neolithic settlement that locals call Grimspound. It was...
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Ella Carey
Apr 6, 20237 min read
The Transformative Power of Historical Fiction
A GUEST POST BY BOOKOUTURE'S ELLA CAREY While historical fiction has the ability to transport us to another time and another place, for...
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John Pilkington
Mar 24, 20234 min read
Yorick - a Jester's Tale
The idea of writing a ‘biography’ of a character from Shakespeare had been with me for some years. I’ve been a Shakespeare devotee for...
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Wendy J Dunn
Mar 13, 20231 min read
Reading of Anne Boleyn's Last Night by Wendy J. Dunn
Wendy J. Dunn, is an award winning author and scholar of Tudor fiction. Her books are available worldwide from here. Visit her website here.
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Sam Taw
Mar 12, 20236 min read
The Mysterious Man-made Caves Built by Iron Age Cornish Settlers
Fogous, a term derived from the Cornish word for cave, ‘ogo’, are a puzzling feature of the landscape for tourists, historians, and...
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Gordon Doherty
Mar 11, 20232 min read
Terror from the North - The Kashkans
The Hittite Empire dominated ancient Anatolia for over five centuries. If a neighbouring kingdom attacked, the Hittites crushed the...
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Wendy J Dunn
Mar 10, 20234 min read
The Final Mystery of Mary Boleyn
Slipping the book into the deep pocket of her skirt, Kate turned to the window. Sighing, she wished the thick, crinkled glass allowed her...
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Paul Bernardi
Mar 10, 20237 min read
Aethelstan: England’s First King – Who Nearly Wasn’t
In the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (specifically the Winchester Manuscript, also known as version [A]), the entry for the year 925 [924]...
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Gordon Doherty
Mar 9, 20237 min read
Bronze Age Lightsabers: Did the Hittites have Iron Weapons?
The Hittites ruled vast tracts of the Ancient Near East for over four hundred years (roughly 1650 BC - 1200 BC). Their army was feared...
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Gordon Doherty
Mar 9, 20234 min read
The Egyptian War Machine
The Egyptian New Kingdom, lasting roughly from 1550 BC to 1077 BC, exploded into being when the last of the hated Hyksos Kings was...
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J G Harlond
Mar 7, 20235 min read
The Barbary Corsairs
As The Chosen Man trilogy progresses, the wicked hero Ludo da Portovenere reveals his true identity. His mother was captured by corsairs...
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Pam Lecky
Mar 5, 20233 min read
Cadgers and Scuttler Gangs… Angel Meadow: Hell Upon Earth!
In my novel, The Bowes Inheritance, there is a brief glimpse of life in Angel Meadow, Manchester, where Fenian sympathies ran high and...
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Paul Bennett
Mar 5, 20237 min read
Writing Novels Set in 18th Century America
The inspiration to write was, in the beginning, merely to see if I could do it. I had written short pieces over the years but to tackle...
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Eric Schumacher
Mar 4, 20234 min read
Novgorod, Holmgard, and the Rus
My novel, Sigurd’s Swords, takes place in the kingdom of the Rus’, known to early Scandinavians as Gardariki, or the “realm of towns.” I...
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Gordon Doherty
Mar 3, 20234 min read
Bronze Age Pirates - the Sherden
Vicious piratical raiders with horns on their helmets? No, I'm not talking about Vikings (it's a myth that they sported horns in any...
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Samantha Wilcoxson
Mar 2, 20236 min read
Unmasking the Villain
It has become standard practice for history enthusiasts to be an unquestioning supporter of either Henry VII or Richard III, naming the...
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Chris Thorndycroft
Mar 2, 20236 min read
Barbarous Usage – A Murder Case that Shocked the Nation
In February of 1748, an elderly customs official named William Galley was escorting a witness called Daniel Chater from Southampton to...
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Gordon Doherty
Feb 26, 20237 min read
The Battle of Kadesh Part Three - Clash of Empires
In part two of the Battle of Kadesh, we followed the march of the Hittites and the Egyptians as they converged upon the city of Kadesh....
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