by David West | Oct 31, 2025 | News
On the 31st of October, 1794, John Dalton gave a lecture to the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society on the subject of colour blindness. He suffered red green colour blindness, which is a bit of a sore subject with me. I was at primary school when the dreaded...
by David West | Oct 30, 2025 | News
I have long been fascinated by codes and cyphers, as readers of my Sir Anthony Standen Adventures will be aware. So today’s post is about Enigma. On the 30th of October, 1942, Lieutenant Francis Anthony Blair Fasson was drowned together with Able Seaman Colin Grazier...
by David West | Oct 29, 2025 | News
On the 29th of October, 1941, over 10,000 Jews were massacred by German soldiers at the Ninth Fort in Kaunas, Lithuania. The holocaust was already well underway. In the wake of the holocaust it is virtually impossible to deny the right of the Jewish people to a...
by David West | Oct 28, 2025 | News
The siege of La Rochelle ended on the 28th of October, 1628, after fourteen months. It falls beyond the span of my work in progress, The Favourite Murder, the fifth book in the Sir Anthony Standen Adventures. However it does introduce Cardinal Richelieu, a key figure...
by David West | Oct 27, 2025 | News
On the 27th of October, 1553, Michael Servetus was burnt alive on a pyre of his own books. He features in Called to Account, the fourth book in the Sir Anthony Standen Adventures. A key character, Manuel, is a doctor of medicine. The main theme of the book is racism...
