by David West | Oct 8, 2026 | News
From the 8th of October, to the 1st of November, 451CE, hundreds of bishops gathered at Chalcedon, across the Bosporus from Constantinople, for one of the most consequential meetings in the history of Christianity. The Council of Chalcedon attempted to settle a...
by David West | Oct 7, 2026 | News
I will always be grateful to Niels Bohr because there was almost always a question on Bohr’s model of the atom in the Oxford Entrance and Scholarship Examination, and knowing that helped me pass. Niels Henrik David Bohr (1885–1962) was a Danish physicist whose ideas...
by David West | Oct 6, 2026 | News
I have written often enough about the Eighty Year’s War because my ancestor, Sir Anthony Standen, was involved as Francis Walsingham’s spy, but I have not written about the Seven Year’s War. On the 6th of October, 1762, the British captured Manila from the Spanish and...
by David West | Oct 5, 2026 | News
I choose the tragic crash of the R101 airship on the 5th of October, 1930, for today’s post. I have already posted on the attempted assassination of Paulo Sarpi on this day in 1607. That is a key event in Fire and Earth, the second book in the Sir Anthony Standen...
by David West | Oct 4, 2026 | News
As an author, I’m obviously interested in books and printing. I’ve written about Johannes Gutenberg and the invention of the moveable type printing press. On the 4th of October, 1535, William Tyndall and Myles Coverdale printed the Coverdale Bible with translations...
