by David West | Jul 22, 2025 | News
It’s time for an update on progress with the fifth book in the Sir Anthony Standen Adventures, The Favourite Murder. Today I edited chapter 19. So I have four more chapters to edit for the second draft. Chapter 23 will need to include some additional material, so that...
by David West | Jul 22, 2025 | News
On the 22nd of July, 1598, Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice was entered on the Stationers’ Register, which by decree of Queen Elizabeth I, licensed all printed works. The Merchant of Venice is my favourite Shakespeare Play. Whilst researching The Spy who Sank the...
by David West | Jul 21, 2025 | News
The Battle of Jemmingen was fought on the 21st of July, 1568, during the Eighty Years’ War. At that time my ancestor, Sir Anthony Standen, was in Paris trying to gain the favour of the English ambassador. When Francis Walsingham took over as English ambassador,...
by David West | Jul 20, 2025 | News
Two events caught my attention for today’s post. On the 20th of July in 1903, the Ford Motor Company shipped its first automobile, and in 1807, Napoleon awarded a patent to Nícephore Níepce for his Pyrélophore, the first internal combustion engine. I studied...
by David West | Jul 19, 2025 | News
The Mary Rose was a formidable Tudor warship, emblematic of England’s maritime ambitions during the reign of King Henry VIII. Constructed between 1509 and 1511 in Portsmouth, she was named possibly after Henry VIII’s sister, Mary, and the Tudor emblem, the...
