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Reflecting again on the Chalke Hist Fest
Zebedee Baker-Smith
Zeb spends the night with an earwig before enjoying the Mooch.
CHF 2025: Day 3
The WiFi, phone reception and fresh beer pleases our Editor at Large
CHF 2025: Day 2
The clouds came and went, and the day finished in beer-drenched sunshine.
Reflections on Day One of Chalke Hist Fest
Zebedee Baker-Smith
Our new Books Editor reflects on his first visit to Chalke
Mary, Queen of Letters
Jade Scott
A new book examines Mary Stuart’s encrypted documents and here the author writes about letters and their use by Mary during captivity.
Ghosts of the English Civil War
Charles J. Esdaile
The Wars of the Three Kingdoms have percolated into ghost stories, as the author of an innovative new book argues.
War, Empire and the Struggle for a New World
Bestselling author and award-winning film-maker Phil Craig explains why he felt compelled to tackle the historical forces at play in his new globe-crossing examination of the final year of World War Two.
Cicero: The Name of Eloquence
Josiah Osgood
It is in the law courts where we can find much of the great oratory of Cicero, as the author of a new biography shows.
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