by David West | Aug 23, 2023 | News
I have started writing the outline for Book 5 in the Sir Anthony Standen Adventures. Readers of my fourth book, Called to Account will know a physician called Manuel. In my outline of Book 5, Manuel pays a house call to a patient with gout. I researched historical...
by David West | Aug 22, 2023 | News
On 22nd August 1485 Henry Tudor defeated Richard III at Bosworth Field. It was the final clash in the Wars of the Roses, a series of civil wars between two rival branches of the Plantagenet dynasty, the House of Lancaster and the House of York. This battle marked the...
by David West | Aug 19, 2023 | News
On 19th August 1561 Mary arrived in Leith to assume the throne of Scotland, after thirteen years in France. Mary Stuart had ascended to the throne of Scotland as an infant, only to face a tumultuous reign marked by power struggles, religious conflicts, and ultimately,...
by David West | Aug 18, 2023 | News
I gave my quarterly blood donation yesterday. As usual I fought to control myself as the nurse took the tiny sample to test for haemoglobin. I’m sure I can’t be the only one desperate to say, right I’ll be off now then, let me know when you want any more. If you...
by David West | Aug 16, 2023 | News
I hadn’t heard of William Thomson. But on 16th August 1858 Queen Victoria sent a telegraph message to US President James Buchanan by transatlantic cable. Buchanan replied, “it is a triumph more glorious, because far more useful to mankind, than was ever won by...
