The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
Charles Cornwallis, Lord Cornwallis, is remembered as one of the salient military leaders of the American Revolution, blamed for the British defeat at Yorktown that marked the beginning of the end of the Revolution. Yet as Richard Middleton´s masterful new biography...
Richard Middleton, Charles, 1st Marquis Cornwallis is probably most well-known for his disastrous military leadership during the American War of Independence. Was he really a terrible commander? Cornwallis’s career as a field commander certainly began badly when he...
Money for Nothing: The South Sea Bubble and the Invention of Modern Capitalism, by Thomas Levenson After the 1707 Act of Union, the new Kingdom of Great Britain was experiencing a number of firsts; Isaac Newton had already brought ground-breaking understanding with...
The South Sea Bubble in 1721 was the first stock market crash of its kind, and ushered into the modern era a new way of managing government debt. Thomas, what parallels should we draw between the South Sea Bubble and more recent bubbles of today, like the dot-com...
As the light began to fade on 2 January 1777, a group of red-coated figures gathered in discussion on a small hill overlooking the village of Trenton, New Jersey. The urgency of their deliberations was emphasised by the rumbling sound of nearby musketry and cannon...
My novel, The Clockwork Girl, was inspired partly by the real scandal of the vanishing children of Paris. In my book, I worked largely with the urban legends that sprang up around the scandal. But what, in fact, really happened? Rumours and leprous princes In the cold...
Penelope Corfield clearly has a knowledge of - and love for - her subject. The Georgians: The Deeds and Misdeeds of 18th Century Britain provides a comprehensive overview of the period, whilst garnishing the account with plenty of insight and detail. What is...
If you are looking for a page-turning historical novel that explores race and class in the late 18th century, as well as being filled with action and engaging characters, then read Ranger. Laced with intrigue, war and the complexity of racial prejudice within English...
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Timothy Ashby, what first attracted you to the period or periods you work in? I have been fascinated by the Elizabethan era since reading that a distant relative was a top “intelligencer” and English ambassador to Scotland. I lived on the island of Grenada as a young...
