My previous posts about Roman women have centered on victims (Lucretia, Virginia) and villains (Tarpeia and Tullia Minor) whose virtues and ...

I have just finished writing the next book in my Meonbridge Chronicles series, set in medieval England. This story centres, not on Meonbridg...

Author's own pumpkin carving effort. Alas the month of October has passed. October is a great month, it is the bridge between autumn and...

There are a few dates in history when the world turned. June 28th, 1914, when shots fired by Govrilo Princip in Sarajevo, set off a train of...

   Back in the late Nineties, and new to the North, I visited the Royal Armouries Leeds. I recall parking on an empty brownfield site, among...

 (Apologies - life has caught me on the hop, and I don't have a new post for today. However, I'm happy to have the opportunity to re...