by David West | Oct 15, 2024 | News
I become increasingly fascinated by language. I studied English (language and literature), French and German at O Level, before focussing on maths and physics at A level, and Engineering Science at university. Only when I took a degree in Modern Language Studies...
by David West | Oct 11, 2024 | News
Claire told me long ago that time immemorial, or before legal memory, is defined as before 1189 A.D., and was fixed by the Statute of Westminster in 1275. Today we visited Stonehenge, a Neolithic stone circle on Salisbury Plain, and it made me wonder what the...
by David West | Oct 6, 2024 | News
Do Cardinal Richelieu and the Duke de Richleau have anything in common? I posted recently about the Dartmouth Book Festival. One thing that I forgot to mention is that in John Suchet’s introduction he mentioned that he was a fan of historical fiction and had started...
by David West | Sep 29, 2024 | News
The October edition of Red Herrings has landed on the doormat. Sadly David Stuart Davies has passed away. He was editor of Red Herrings for twenty years and was an internationally known Sherlock Holmes expert. In this edition I discovered that the man labelled the...
by David West | Sep 24, 2024 | News
I remember reading that if you want to carve a sculpture of someone, start with a block of marble, and chip away everything that doesn’t look like the person. It might have been an elephant, I can’t remember. It seems to me about as useful as saying that if you want...
