by David West | Oct 3, 2026 | News
Eddie Cochran was born on the 3rd of October, 1938 in Albert Lea, Minnesota. Very sadly he died in a car crash, on the 17th of April, 1960, just three miles from where I am writing this, on the A4 near Chippenham. Although his life was tragically cut short at the age...
by David West | Oct 2, 2026 | News
On the 2nd of October, 1920, Mikhail Frunze ordered the Red Army to immediately cease hostilities with the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine. The Ukrainian War of Independence was a complex struggle between 1917 and 1921 in which Ukrainian nationalists attempted...
by David West | Oct 1, 2026 | News
On the 1st of October, 1553, Queen Mary I was crowned in Westminster Abbey. My ancestor Sir Anthony Standen, the Elizabethan spy, would have been around four years of age. In The Spy who Sank the Armada, the first book in the Sir Anthony Standen Adventures, Anthony...
by David West | Sep 30, 2026 | News
The Battle of Morlaix was fought on the 30th of September, 1342. I was part of the crew which won the Plymouth – Morlaix yacht race in July 2004, whilst on a race training course. But back to the battle. It was one of the earliest major land battles of the...
by David West | Sep 29, 2026 | News
On the 29th of September, 1011CE the Danes captured Canterbury and took Archbishop Ælfheah prisoner. The Romans founded Canterbury around AD 43–50, not long after their invasion of Britain. They called it Durovernum Cantiacorum (“the fortress of the men of Kent”). I...
