by David West | Nov 4, 2024 | News
Revolution seems to have been a feature of the fourth of November over the years. Since I was born on the 5th of November, Guy Fawkes night was a special childhood celebration. Fawkes was discovered in the undercroft of the House of Lords on the night of 4th November...
by David West | Nov 3, 2024 | News
I am getting to know Louis XIII and Cardinal Richelieu through writing The Favourite Murder, the fifth book in the Sir Anthony Standen Adventures. I expect this book to end in 1617, so the siege of La Rochelle is still ten years distant. It was a defining event for...
by David West | Nov 2, 2024 | News
The 2nd of November seems to have been an interesting day for media in the past. In 1924 the Sunday Express printed the first British crossword puzzle, and in 1936 the BBC started the first regular high definition television broadcast from Alexandra Palace. This...
by David West | Nov 1, 2024 | News
I have posted recently about dining with Harold MacMillan, well we were in the same room, if not on the same table. Events, dear boy, events, was a saying of his, describing the susceptibility of plans to unexpected events. In the vast scope of history, certain dates...
by David West | Oct 31, 2024 | News
As any reader of Fire and Earth, the second book in the Sir Anthony Standen Adventures, will know I don’t believe in ghosts. But it’s Halloween, so I’ll blog about it. Halloween, or more correctly (according to Chambers) Hallowe’en, celebrated on October 31st, is a...
