Seven Years’ War
I have written often enough about the Eighty Year’s War because my ancestor, Sir Anthony Standen, was involved as Francis Walsingham’s spy, but I have not written about the Seven Year’s War. On the 6th of October, 1762, the British captured Manila from the Spanish and...
R101
I choose the tragic crash of the R101 airship on the 5th of October, 1930, for today’s post. I have already posted on the attempted assassination of Paulo Sarpi on this day in 1607. That is a key event in Fire and Earth, the second book in the Sir Anthony Standen...
Coverdale Bible
As an author, I’m obviously interested in books and printing. I’ve written about Johannes Gutenberg and the invention of the moveable type printing press. On the 4th of October, 1535, William Tyndall and Myles Coverdale printed the Coverdale Bible with translations...
Eddie Cochran
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...
Ukrainian War of Independence
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...
Queen Mary I
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...
Battle of Morlaix
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 Hundred...
Canterbury
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...
Wenceslaus
On the 28th of September, 935 CE, Duke Wenceslaus I of Bohemia was murdered by a group of nobles led by his brother, Boleslaus I. Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia, is one of the most celebrated figures of early medieval Central Europe. Known in Czech as Václav, he was...
Seven Years’ War
I have written often enough about the Eighty Year’s War because my ancestor, Sir Anthony Standen, was involved as Francis Walsingham’s spy, but I have not written about the Seven Year’s War. On the 6th of October, 1762, the British captured Manila from the Spanish and...
R101
I choose the tragic crash of the R101 airship on the 5th of October, 1930, for today’s post. I have already posted on the attempted assassination of Paulo Sarpi on this day in 1607. That is a key event in Fire and Earth, the second book in the Sir Anthony Standen...
Coverdale Bible
As an author, I’m obviously interested in books and printing. I’ve written about Johannes Gutenberg and the invention of the moveable type printing press. On the 4th of October, 1535, William Tyndall and Myles Coverdale printed the Coverdale Bible with translations...
Eddie Cochran
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...
Ukrainian War of Independence
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...
Queen Mary I
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...
Battle of Morlaix
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 Hundred...
Canterbury
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...
Wenceslaus
On the 28th of September, 935 CE, Duke Wenceslaus I of Bohemia was murdered by a group of nobles led by his brother, Boleslaus I. Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia, is one of the most celebrated figures of early medieval Central Europe. Known in Czech as Václav, he was...