The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
She looked like royalty, or so thought many guests at the sight of Dolley Madison in her velvet inaugural gown and velvet and white satin turban with towering bird-of-paradise feathers. In full naval regalia, the head of the Navy Yard led her into the hall at Long’s...
David O. Stewart, what prompted you to choose the period that you wrote your first book in? I’ve done five books – four histories and one novel – on the American Founding era (1770-1815), beginning with our Constitutional Convention (The Summer of 1787). It is an...
I must own up to a long preoccupation with Berlin. This began with my first foray to the then beleaguered city. It was in 1961 and I was a young platoon commander in the Rhine Army, given responsibility with my soldiers for the safe passage of a resupply train for the...
A Very Dickensian Christmas Christmas as we know it was largely defined by the Victorians: from the arrival of Christmas trees to the development of crackers and the sending of cards, most of our modern-day traditions date back to the mid-19th century. The royal...
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TIPSY CAKE Based on Eliza Acton, 1845, Modern Cookery As a confirmed trifle-hater, I briefly considered putting a nice, savoury trifle in here, based on lobster in a fried bread cup. But honesty compels me to admit it is more of a croustade, and a cheat’s way out. If...
There are many published books about Winston Churchill, but this is not yet another one. It is a quite remarkable analysis of, and insight into, Churchill’s personality traits and experiences, as a young soldier and journalist during the late 19th and early 20th...
Julian Corbett was born in 1854 and after becoming a barrister in 1877 he practised law until 1882. At that point he turned to writing as a career beginning with historical fiction often with a maritime theme. That led on to commissions to write a couple of...
Books of 2021 from Aspects of HistoryAlan Bardos Author of The Dardanelles ConspiracyLaw of Blood is the first in R.N. Morris’s new Empire of Shadows series, featuring magistrate Pavel Pavlovich Virginsky. In Law of Blood, Virginsky investigates the murder of a...
Sharpe's cavalry sword is still being sheathed into the guts of his enemies. Harper's volley gun is still reverberating like thunder. Wellington is still grumpy. The British army can still fire three shots a minute. And the word "bastard" still litters the air like...
