Tag Archives: history

A GREAT LOVE OF SMALL PROPORTION

Posted on February 24, 2016 by [email protected]

  My big book with CoolGus is released this year on May 10!! It’s called A GREAT LOVE OF SMALL PROPORTION. I’m really excited about this one … We’ve just released the trailer.   And if you’re on my newsletter … Continue reading →

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THE ANSWERS TO THE FUTURE ARE IN THE PAST

Posted on December 11, 2015 by [email protected]

Now although I write historical novels, I don’t write about history as such, and I have no especial fondness for the past. I write stories, and as such I am interested in people, and why we do what we do, … Continue reading →

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the funny, bloody history of the Tower of London

Posted on December 7, 2015 by [email protected]

I wish this guy had taught me history at school … I might have stayed interested! [cta id=”8243″ vid=”0″] COLIN FALCONER

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BATAVIA: THE CRUISE OF A LIFETIME

Posted on September 7, 2015 by [email protected]

SAIL THE BATAVIA! 220 DAYS AND 219 NIGHTS CRUISING TO THE SPICE ISLANDS! HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE MUTINY, RAPE, 80.06% CHANCE OF BEING MURDERED OR DROWNED AND GLORIOUS SUNSETS! They didn’t have travel agents in the seventeenth century but if they had, … Continue reading →

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In Like Flynn

Posted on August 31, 2015 by [email protected]

During the 1940’s the name Errol Flynn became synonymous with silver screen swashbuckling and romantic heroism. The truth was a touch less glamorous; when Flynn tried to enlist in the army in 1942, he failed the physical exam due to … Continue reading →

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Sex, Lies and Braveheart

Posted on August 25, 2015 by [email protected]

Braveheart won five Academy Awards on its release twenty years ago and took its place in the pantheon of iconic historical movie epics. For a lot of people, it remains the one thing they remember about Scottish history. Which is … Continue reading →

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DISAPPEARED: THE MOST TERRIBLE SECRET IN THE WORLD

Posted on August 7, 2015 by [email protected]

What would you do if you discovered that your mother and father were not your real parents after all … that the two people who raised you knew the truth and hid it from you … that you were one … Continue reading →

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12 WAYS TO SEE HISTORY

Posted on July 15, 2015 by [email protected]

Not all history is in books. Some of it you can see for yourself in a photograph. What can you see here? What you are looking at is a little boy who had just come home to find his house … Continue reading →

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WHAT IS IT LIKE TO FIGHT IN ARMOR?

Posted on June 11, 2015 by [email protected]

So what was it really like to fight in armor? We’ve all seen it done i.n the movies. But how realistic is it? As you’ll see from the following demonstration medieval knights could have been surprisingly mobile. And fighting tactics … Continue reading →

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THE GOOD NAZI

Posted on June 7, 2015 by [email protected]

This is the story of the good Nazi you may never have heard of; though the surname will be familiar. Hermann Göring was founder of the Gestapo and Hitler’s anointed successor at the start of the second world war. He … Continue reading →

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