by David West | Nov 11, 2025 | News
On the 11th of November, 1880, the notorious bushranger, Ned Kelley was executed. I have posted about American outlaws, but haven’t touched Australia yet, so here goes. Ned Kelly, one of Australia’s most infamous historical figures, was an outlaw whose life and...
by David West | Nov 10, 2025 | News
On the 10th of November, 1871, Henry Morton Stanley found the missing explorer and missionary, David Livingstone in Ujiji close to Lake Tanganyika. This encounter symbolised the meeting of two worlds: the driven, resourceful journalist and adventurer sent on a mission...
by David West | Nov 9, 2025 | News
Kristallnacht shattered the lives of Jews across Nazi Germany on the night of the 9th/ 10th of November, 1938. The immediate pretext for Kristallnacht was the assassination of Ernst vom Rath, a German diplomat in Paris, by a 17-year-old Polish-Jewish refugee named...
by David West | Nov 8, 2025 | News
Wikipedia tells me that on the 8th of November, 1291, the Republic of Venice enacted a law that confined most of Venice’s glassmakers to the island of Murano. Venice features as a setting in Fire and Earth, the second book in the Sir Anthony Standen Adventures. Murano...
by David West | Nov 7, 2025 | News
The London Gazette is one of the oldest surviving English newspapers and an official journal of record for the United Kingdom. Established during the 17th century, it holds a unique position in British history and governance, being instrumental in the dissemination of...
by David West | Nov 6, 2025 | News
Suleiman the Magnificent, also known as Suleiman I, was the tenth and longest-reigning Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, ruling from 1520 to 1566. He is remembered as a symbol of imperial greatness, military prowess, and cultural flowering, presiding over a period often...
