photo: German Federal Archive Here are Hitler's Storm Troopers, marching triumphantly after he was made Chancellor of Germany on t...

And, in the spiced Indian air, by night, Full often hath she gossip'd by my side, And sat with me on Neptune's yellow sand...

The fronticepiece from John Playford's  "Musicks recreation on the lyra viol " There are writers who...

Why do we remember certain episodes in our history and teach them in our schools, while we conveniently forget others? When I was a gra...

With the 85th anniversary of Amy Johnson’s record-breaking flight from England to Australia having passed a couple of weeks ago, and...

When I was a child, as a change from playing Cowboys and Indians, we would charge about the woods and fields being Roundheads and Cavaliers....

Most of my writing is for children and when I’m asked "When's your novel set?", the easiest response is to name a historica...