by David West | Nov 16, 2024 | News
Today I had the horrible feeling that in The Favourite Murder, my work in progress and the fifth book of the Sir Anthony Standen Adventures, I might have broken one of Ronald Knox’s famous Ten Commandments of Detective Fiction. I checked them, and I’m happy to say...
by David West | Nov 16, 2024 | News
The French state funeral for Henrietta Maria Princess of France took place on 16th November 1669. She is a child in my work in progress, The Favourite Murder, the fifth book in The Sir Anthony Standen Adventures. Her elder sister Elizabeth has just been married off to...
by David West | Nov 15, 2024 | News
On 15th November 1533 Cuzco was captured. Francisco Pizarro, a Spanish conquistador, is best known for his conquest of the Inca Empire and the capture of its capital, Cuzco, in 1533. His journey was driven by ambitions of wealth, power, and spreading Christianity,...
by David West | Nov 14, 2024 | News
I’ve posted previously about donating blood, and on 14th November 1666 Samuel Pepys wrote in his diary about a blood transfusion between dogs, performed by the British physician Richard Lower. The first recorded blood transfusion to a human was performed in 1667 by...
by David West | Nov 13, 2024 | News
I attended an exhibition by a stage hypnotist at the Oxford Union when I was a student, and what he was able to do was astonishing. It made a great impression on me. I’ve even tried a hypnosis app to improve my golf. There’s still some way to go. James Braid...
