Today I want to explore primary sources. Let me be honest: every day I want to explore primary sources. Today, however, I have a special...

King John's tomb Worcester Cathedral As a writer,  much of the need-to-know detail for my novel is the background material culture o...

When an author writes about people who actually lived, one of the challenges is finding out about the secondary characters; the people...

Front cover  June 2015 sees the 800th anniversary of the signing of Magna Carta at Runnymede and in this book Dan Jones presents a usefu...

I'm doing a spot of multi tasking for my feature this month -  I'm posting some notes from an informal lecture I gave on  the 22nd N...