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Showing posts with label Napoleon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Napoleon. Show all posts
Wednesday, 26 July 2017

In Memory of Max Gallo, by Carol Drinkwater

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Max Gallo at a book  signing I am going to begin with an apology. I am on a book tour for my new novel, THE LOST GIRL, running between c...
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Saturday, 27 August 2016

History Exercise in a Hammock by Janie Hampton

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This month I offer readers tips on how to get fit, ready for all that calorie-burning reading of history books that you plan to do this au...
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Saturday, 5 April 2014

"Converting Our Island into a Peninsula" - Joan Lennon

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You know how it is - when I was researching the Slightly Jones Mysteries * I came across far more fascinating tidbits than could possibly fi...
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Wednesday, 26 March 2014

The giraffe that beguiled not just a King but a nation – Dianne Hofmeyr

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A giraffe walking through the streets of Paris in 1827 must have been a wondrous sight. What was this strange horned, half horse, half...
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Monday, 28 November 2011

So, Charles, what did you do on your holidays? by K. M. Grant

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I'm highly indebted to Eve Edwards for including in the list of accepted but erroneous beliefs (3rd November), that ‘Napoleon was short’...
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Thursday, 3 November 2011

Ten things I now know are wrong by Eve Edwards

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Eve Edwards Have you ever come across something that overturned all your preconceived notions about a subject?  I do frequently – pa...
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