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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

It may seem strange for a scientist born in London to be writing about the history of a small Scottish village and its people, and to claim that it is a village that changed history. Yet Lesmahagow is where my...

Around three years ago I awaited (as I do every month) the delivery of my Nacelle (The national magazine of the Triumph Owners Motorcycle Club). As I had anticipated it slipped though my letter box and the cover to cover...

In 1487, the first big rebellion against Henry VII took place. Known to history as the "Lambert Simnel Rebellion", it was led mainly by Francis Lovell, Viscount Lovell, and John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln. Though others were involved...

Rome has always been a city of men and used by them as a powerbase. From Republican Rome, when the function of women was to breed the next generation of soldiers and statesmen, to Medieval times when Rome was divided...