A few months back, while looking at the Wanted ads in issues of the Hobart Mercury of 1878, I was surprised to find, in amongst those for...

If you’re a reader of Regency historical fiction, you may perhaps have come across references to packet ships and wondered what they...

At the start of the wars of the roses Margaret Beaufort was a relatively insignificant member of the house of Lancaster but after years...

At the heart of Dartmoor, in the South West of England, lies an abandoned Neolithic settlement that locals call Grimspound. It was...

A GUEST POST BY BOOKOUTURE'S ELLA CAREY While historical fiction has the ability to transport us to another time and another place, for...

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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Fogous, a term derived from the Cornish word for cave, ‘ogo’, are a puzzling feature of the landscape for tourists, historians, and...

The Hittite Empire dominated ancient Anatolia for over five centuries. If a neighbouring kingdom attacked, the Hittites crushed the...

Slipping the book into the deep pocket of her skirt, Kate turned to the window. Sighing, she wished the thick, crinkled glass allowed her...

In the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (specifically the Winchester Manuscript, also known as version [A]), the entry for the year 925 [924]...

The Hittites ruled vast tracts of the Ancient Near East for over four hundred years (roughly 1650 BC - 1200 BC). Their army was feared...

The Egyptian New Kingdom, lasting roughly from 1550 BC to 1077 BC, exploded into being when the last of the hated Hyksos Kings was...

As The Chosen Man trilogy progresses, the wicked hero Ludo da Portovenere reveals his true identity. His mother was captured by corsairs...

In my novel, The Bowes Inheritance, there is a brief glimpse of life in Angel Meadow, Manchester, where Fenian sympathies ran high and...

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...

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...

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...

It has become standard practice for history enthusiasts to be an unquestioning supporter of either Henry VII or Richard III, naming the...

In February of 1748, an elderly customs official named William Galley was escorting a witness called Daniel Chater from Southampton to...