by David West | Jun 7, 2023 | News
On 7th June 1614 King James I dissolved the “Addled Parliament”. The Addled Parliament was so-called because it failed to achieve anything of significance during its short lifespan. It was called by the king to address the financial issues that were plaguing the...
by David West | Jun 3, 2023 | News
I’m a writer of historical fiction now, author of the Sir Anthony Standen Adventures. But I’m also a sailor, and a retired civil engineer. Therefore I was thrilled to discover the Daymark on my walk this afternoon. It’s a really elegant structure. I did wonder if you...
by David West | Jun 1, 2023 | News
I’m sure you’ve already guessed, but the inspiration for my posts often comes from events which took place on the day. The first event on the “on this day” website for 1st June is 4000 BC, domestication of horses. They do say it’s a hypothesis only. The people of the...
by David West | May 31, 2023 | News
Francis Bacon plays a small part in The Spy who Sank the Armada, my fictionalised biography of Sir Anthony Standen. Sir Anthony was a spy who was controlled, for a time, by Anthony Bacon, Francis’s elder brother. On the 31st May 1621 Francis Bacon, who was then Lord...
by David West | May 30, 2023 | News
I was gazing at the weeds in our onion bed this morning, when I wondered where the phrase “know you onions” comes from. Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable came to the rescue. It dispensed with the references to C.T. Onions, author and editor of the Shorter Oxford...
