by David West | Oct 3, 2025 | News
My pick for today’s historical event is the Siege of Leiden, which was a pivotal event in the Eighty Years’ War. Sir Anthony Standen was an Elizabethan Spy and was spying for Sir Francis Walsingham in Flanders at the time. In The Spy who Sank the Armada, the...
by David West | Oct 2, 2025 | News
My choice of historical event of the day is quite unusual, and I confess that I had not heard of the Nottingham Cheese Riot until today. I usually look for something I can link to that I have previously posted, for SEO (search engine optimisation), but I can’t think...
by David West | Oct 1, 2025 | News
On the 1st of October, 331 BC, Alexander the Great defeated King Darius III’s army at the Battle of Gaugamela. I’ve posted previously about an earlier clash between Persia and Greece, the Battle of Marathon. Alexander the Great, born in 356 BC in Pella, the ancient...
by David West | Sep 30, 2025 | News
I’m currently reading The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. I posted about A Legacy of Spies some time ago, and I finally decided that it was time to read all of John Le Carré’s Smiley series in order. So it seems appropriate that today’s post should be about the Berlin...
by David West | Sep 29, 2025 | News
The Mandate for Palestine, formally approved by the League of Nations on the 24th of July, 1922, and coming into effect from the 29th of September, 1923, was a pivotal legal document that shaped the geopolitical landscape of the Middle East in the 20th century. Rooted...
