Imperfect Political Tranquilizer of Sir Robert Walpole The years following the 1688 Glorious Revolution saw such intense competition between parliamentary factions that the period came to be called the era of ‘the rage of party.’ Both the Lords and the...

This book completes the trilogy on Luftwaffe fighter pilot experiences from World War Two, based on personal reminiscences of 69 eyewitnesses. While examining the last year of the war in the West, and the painful imprisonment that awaited most Luftwaffe...

Many of you may have watched the Channel 5 television series ‘The Yorkshire Steam Railway – All Aboard’. It is one of the most watched programmes on the channel, averaging more than a million viewers for each episode. 2020 saw...

For almost 50 years one of the main events on the UK bus rally calendar has been the ‘SHOWBUS’ event, which between 1982 and 2015, except for 2013, was held at either Woburn Abbey or the Imperial War Museum at...

We tend to think of Eleanor of Aquitaine as a triumphant, successful and powerful figure. This is certainly a fair representation of her later life. But it utterly ignores both the limited power she had earlier in her life –...

Gods at War - The Trouble with the Bible How many wars has it started? Until a few hundred years ago to find fault with the Bible was a capital offence. As a divine creation the good book (or Good...

In producing Paranormal Northamptonshire, I gathered many more stories than could be included. Omissions were based more on similarities to other narratives and geographical location than interest or quality. To leave them gathering dust on a metaphorical shelf would be an...

Whilst researching information for my John Henry Spree`s Nottinghamshire book, published by Amberley in September 2018, I came across many postcards of Nottingham that I found interesting so I embarked on a personal project of putting together a Nottingham Postcard...

A feisty American nun, the Pig, and a naïve teenager in South Africa …what could go wrong? A Nun and the Pig is a rich cocktail of ripping yarns, poignant stories and rollicking tales written in the style of a...

Having produced two previous Postcard Collection books, ‘John Henry Spree’s Nottinghamshire’ and ‘Hastings and St Leonards’ I thought I would try again and decided to choose Portsmouth which was another location that was associated with the Spree family. In 1959...