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August 2, 2021
For almost 50 years one of the main events on the UK bus rally calendar has been the ‘SHOWBUS’ event, which between 1982 and 2015, except for 2013, was held at either Woburn Abbey or the Imperial War Museum at...
July 30, 2021
We tend to think of Eleanor of Aquitaine as a triumphant, successful and powerful figure. This is certainly a fair representation of her later life. But it utterly ignores both the limited power she had earlier in her life –...
July 28, 2021
Gods at War - The Trouble with the Bible How many wars has it started? Until a few hundred years ago to find fault with the Bible was a capital offence. As a divine creation the good book (or Good...
July 27, 2021
In producing Paranormal Northamptonshire, I gathered many more stories than could be included. Omissions were based more on similarities to other narratives and geographical location than interest or quality. To leave them gathering dust on a metaphorical shelf would be an...
July 26, 2021
Whilst researching information for my John Henry Spree`s Nottinghamshire book, published by Amberley in September 2018, I came across many postcards of Nottingham that I found interesting so I embarked on a personal project of putting together a Nottingham Postcard...
July 23, 2021
A feisty American nun, the Pig, and a naïve teenager in South Africa …what could go wrong? A Nun and the Pig is a rich cocktail of ripping yarns, poignant stories and rollicking tales written in the style of a...
July 22, 2021
Having produced two previous Postcard Collection books, ‘John Henry Spree’s Nottinghamshire’ and ‘Hastings and St Leonards’ I thought I would try again and decided to choose Portsmouth which was another location that was associated with the Spree family. In 1959...
July 21, 2021
After years of research and believing that you have found everything said or written on your subject – in my case Daniel Mendoza, the great Georgian-era bareknuckle prize-fighter – and having edited that information as best you can, it is...
July 20, 2021
Writing a book with the title A-Z of Halifax presented a couple of challenges. First, with so much history to write about, there was the problem of what to leave out. Then came the problem of finding things to write...
July 19, 2021
Tales of a Blue Badge Tourist Guide for Jersey My name is Tracey Radford, I am the author of A-Z of Jersey and I’m fortunate to live in the beautiful Channel Island of Jersey. I am also a Blue Badge...