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The Bristol Bus Boycott, by H.M. Castor
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, 28 August 1963.[Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsTwo weeks ago yesterday, the 50thanniversary was marked of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and of Martin...
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The Winners of Sam Angus's book are as follows:Andrea PeaceRuan PeatRhiannon MarklessSarah GoreKarenPlease contact Kate Wright Morris: kate@wrightmorris.co.uk to claim your prizes.And congratulations!
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The Past is Now - Almost Catherine Johnson
In case you're worried this blog is simply a bit of puff for my lovely new book, please understand it isn't, but it does refer to it - ahem - quite a lot. But as the book isn't out for two weeks...
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Pushing up Profits
by Marie-Louise JensenHow do you make a quick buck selling smuggled goods? Or even selling goods to be smuggled? You have to convince your potential client that the goods you are selling are superior...
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Five Favourite Museums: by Sue Purkiss
Of course, I don't believe in astrology. Our lives ruled by spinning balls of matter light years away? Utter nonsense, of course. But there is one Libran trait that I undeniably have in spades: the...
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MY CORAM CUP by Penny Dolan
Ever since the National Theatre’s poignant production of “Coram Boy”, based on Jamila Gavin’s novel for young people, I’ve longed to visit the Foundling Museum. Living in Yorkshire, my trips to...
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Protection Against Witches - Celia Rees
I was visiting an old house outside Machynlleth, in North Wales, when I noticed a pair of old shoes in the hearth. The guide said that they had been found while work was being done on the fire place....
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Stories from along the Great Silk Road and two objects for the Cabinet of...
Theresa BreslinWe’ve had a wonderful summer - we can’t often say that it Scotland – and now it looks set to be a glorious autumn. I’m feeling very buoyant and thought that I’d include special items in...
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'The Shame and the Glory' by A L Berridge
On Friday 13th September five people squeezed past an enclosure of roadworks and stood on a pedestrian island in Waterloo Place to conduct a Remembrance Service in the rain. Japanese tourists pointed...
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Radical Chic by Imogen Robertson
First of all, if anyone missed Louise's post yesterday please go and read it at once. It's great and it's important. I'll wait. Secondly, my apologies if you are interested more in the history part of...
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Dear Author ... by Kate Lord Brown
As a new writer, the novelty of receiving letters and emails from readers is still fresh and wonderful. My favourite message to date came from a gentleman of a certain age, who wrote to thank me for...
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The Hitler Routine, by Leslie Wilson
Source: Bundesarchiv no 102-13376I read it first in the Metro newspaper, which I picked up on the tube. 'Brand's Hitler routine leaves a Nazi taste' the headline proclaimed. I sighed, then read it,...
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It Ain't Necessarily So....
When I embarked on my novel about Alienor of Aquitaine, The Summer Queen, I wanted to know what she looked like, so I checked around to see if there were any sources that described her physical...
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SCOTLAND IN STITCHES by Eleanor Updale
We all know about the Bayeux tapestry: a masterpiece embroidered to commemorate the Norman Conquest.It has endured for nearly a thousand years. For the past few months, I''ve been involved in the...
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NAPOLEON SLEPT HERE –Dianne Hofmeyr
When you mention the town of Tolentino, few know of it beyond perhaps that it has a clock tower with three clock faces and is in the heart of le Marche in Italy. But from the 16th to the 19th February...
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The oldest floating ship in Africa . . .
... is named after a vicar. Here he is, on the left: Archdeacon Chauncey Maples, with his friend and fellow missionary William Percival Johnson, in 1895 :The year this photograph was taken was the year...
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CLICK FOR HISTORY by Eleanor Updale
I was planning something pretty earnest for this month, but it needed a photo specially taken in London, and a change in my travel plans means it will have to wait for another time.YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT...
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IN SEARCH OF NEIL AGGETT – Dianne Hofmeyr
Historical fact? Or Historical fiction? It depends on who tells the story. I grew up with History books so slanted toward a single viewpoint that they were almost subversive, but at the time I believed...
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After All That - by Louisa Young
I have been much engaged with Aftermaths recently. My most recent novel was set in the First World War; it required a sequel, so what choice is there? I wanted to call the sequel After All That; the...
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Found in translation? Biographer Clare Mulley considers the importance of...
Last week my biography of Krystyna Skarbek, aka Christine Granville, the first woman to work for Britain as a special agent in the Second World War, was published in Poland. I think she would have been...
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