by David West | Nov 27, 2024 | News
I’m trying to be talked about now. I want my website to attract attention and hopefully sell my books, The Sir Anthony Standen Adventures. But I’m unlikely to be successful as Theodore Hook. The Berner’s Street Hoax was an elaborate prank orchestrated by the English...
by David West | Nov 26, 2024 | News
The On This Day website tell me that on 26th November 1476 Vlad III, known to history as Vlad the Impaler or Vlad Dracula, with the help of Stephen the Great and Stephen V Bathory defeated Basarab Laiota to become ruler of Wallachia for the third time. His legacy is a...
by David West | Nov 26, 2024 | News
I use the On This Day website for inspiration more than fact. It says that on 3rd December 1586 Sir Thomas Herriot introduced potatoes to England from Colombia. I can’t find a Sir Thomas Herriot, but there was a Sir Thomas Harriot. Harriot became a close associate of...
by David West | Nov 25, 2024 | News
On 25th November 1741 Elizabeth seized Russia from her cousin Anna Ivanovna. Elizabeth Petrovna, known as Elizabeth of Russia, was one of the most intriguing figures of the Russian imperial history. Born on December 29, 1709, she was the daughter of Peter the Great...
by David West | Nov 24, 2024 | News
In Fire and Earth, the second book of the Sir Anthony Standen Adventures, Standen meets Galileo. In 1609 he was the first man to observe the phases of Venus through a telescope. Astronomy then advanced quite quickly. Jeremiah Horrocks (1618-1641) was a pioneering...
