The reflection of Bubbles in the Cauldron
In researching the Stuarts it was interesting to find that the area in which the 1820 novel Bubbles in the Cauldron was set saw an earlier uprising in 1679 when the Presbyterian Covenanters defeated the […]
Stuart Spies
I’ve found in my researching it is often an almost throw away comment that offers the greatest possibilities. For example, in my researches for incidents for a book, hopefully a series, on the navy during […]
Tax and Justice under Cromwell
Welcome to the new look website. I’m quite excited about it and hope everyone can enjoy browsing. I’m still looking into the Struart era for story lines for aa historical novel and found these comments […]
John Wayne in the Highlands.
I’ve been talking about the Stuarts but I’m actually rewriting a book called Drover, which will have a new title and is the first in the Drover series. The follow on is Bubbles in the […]
Auld Alliance
A comment in Roger’s The Guardian of the Seas, that the French purpose in marrying the Dauphine to the Scots princess, Mary (Queen of Scots) was to acquire Scotland as a province, like Aquitaine, made […]
Bees in my Bonnet
While the research for the navy under the Stuarts is ongoing, I also need to do a bit on the early 1820,s for the follow on from Bubbles in the Cauldron. I have a good […]
Pirates in Plymouth
This search started from two points of view, to find incidents involving the navy that would make story lines for an historical novel and to find out more of the growth of trade around the […]
Medieval Invasion Strategy
I’ve just been boning up on the navy in the time of the Henry’s and I’m amazed at the amount of work that has gone into the various books. However, as an old freelance journalist […]
Sean Connery and Mel Gibson
Once or twice I have had people warn others to be careful or they might end up in one of my stories but when I’m writing a story I like to think of my characters […]
Pirates everywhere
I was amused to find that in the years before Elizabeth 1 the Scots had a ‘powerful’ navy. Not so much the Scots, but the people of the West Coast and the Islands, people who […]
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