by David West | Apr 1, 2025 | News
On the 1st of April 1572 the Sea Beggars, or Waterguezen, captured Brielle. In my account of the life of my ancestor, the Elizabethan spy, Sir Anthony Standen, he serves with the Sea Beggars for a few months. The book is called The Spy who Sank the Armada, the first...
by David West | Mar 31, 2025 | News
The Alhambra Decree, also known as the Edict of Expulsion, stands as one of the most pivotal and controversial decisions in Spanish history. Issued on the 31st of March, 1492, by the Catholic Monarchs, Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile, this decree...
by David West | Mar 30, 2025 | News
NATO is in the news at the moment. Certainly we in Europe need to fund our own defence. Winston Churchill worked long and hard to bring the U.S. into World War II, but ultimately it was the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour which did it. I took part in a couple of NATO...
by David West | Mar 29, 2025 | News
The 29th of March, 1951, was the day of the Hypnosis Murders in Copenhagen. This grabbed my attention because my third book in the Sir Anthony Standen Adventures, The Suggested Assassin, is on a very similar theme. I have been fascinated by hypnosis since watching a...
by David West | Mar 28, 2025 | News
My post yesterday was about the Solidarity movement in Poland, and the Cold War. The 28th of March, 1795, was an earlier significant day in the history of Poland. The Duchy of Courland and Semigallia, part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, ceased to exist and...
