Historical short stories
Why not a historical short story?
Why not a historical short story?
Writers are part of the solution.
I’ve sent the first book of the Drover trilogy to have it critiqued and then either throw it in the bucket or work it into something saleable. It’s a good tale and I’m hopeful it […]
I have often found the throw-away comments in history books to be the some of the most intriguing and The King’s Revenge, by Don Jordan and Michael Walsh, proved no exception. The book deals with […]
What happened when William and Mary became King and Queen
Until I studied it, I thought the Stuart era, from James 1 and V1 was the Civil War, Charles getting his head chopped off and Bonnie Prince Charlie but there’s a lot more to it […]
One interesting facet of the navy of the Stuart era is the introduction of convoys with escorts, much like the U-Boats in WW2. Obviously there were no U-Bots but there were privateers and ships with […]
While I’m busy with N.A.M. Rodgers naval histories around the Jacobite period, I need to start thinking of what the end will be – just an interest, or the basis for some stories. The first […]
Scottish fishermen being in the Arctic ocean at the time of the Reformation between the time of Henry VIII and Good Queen Bess has stirred a bee in my bonnet. I’ve felt for some time […]
I had just settled back to the Stuarts when my local Writers’ Group decided the months task would be a letter that changed the World. Naturally I looked over Bonnie Prince Charlie and his antecedents […]