The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
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Casual students of history will know Elizabeth Stuart, queen of Bohemia, by her famous sobriquet – the Winter Queen (a name derived from a jibe against her husband) – or for her minor role in the Gunpowder Plot. Those a little more familiar with the period might...
As so often, the setting came first. The Great Fire of London raged for four days in September 1666, destroying most of the ancient walled City, including old St Paul’s, the medieval cathedral, and more than 13,000 houses. Seventy thousand people were made homeless,...
Andrew Taylor, what prompted you to choose the period that you wrote your first book in? Apart from a series set in the 1950s, and a thriller set in the 1940s and 1950s, my first historical novel was The American Boy. This is set in Regency England. Subject and...
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When it comes to a battle, size does not always correlate with importance, nor is it necessarily won or lost entirely on the day itself. A small but significant action that may also have influenced another, later engagement occurred outside the town of Lemgo in 1638....
On December 9th 2020, the German Chancellor Angela Merkel gave a speech to the Federal Parliament: ‘I believe in the power of the Enlightenment.’ She said, ‘If Europe is what it is, it must thank the Enlightenment and the idea thereby derived that there is a...
The two main characters of my novel The Bloodless Boy were real people. Both employed by the Royal Society of London, Robert Hooke was its Curator of Experiments, and Harry Hunt, who had been Hooke’s apprentice, was an ‘observator’. My story has them investigate the...
Beginning in October 1645, The King’s Captain is set in the midst of the Civil War. It is a war which touches not just England. A seemingly endless conflict. A chance remains with the Marquis of Montrose, a Scottish commander who can help King Charles I secure...
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