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Mickey Mayhew

Mickey Mayhew is a disabled author and historian from London, working mainly on Mary Queen of Scots, Anne Boleyn, and the Romanovs; his PhD covered the contentious online ‘cults’ surrounding both Mary and Anne. He wrote The Little Book of Mary Queen of Scots (The History Press) in 2014 and then I Love The Tudors (Pitkin Publishing) in 2016. House of Tudor – A Grisly History and Imprisoning Mary Queen of Scots – The Men Who Kept the Stuart Queen were released by Pen & Sword Books in 2022. Rasputin and his Russian Queen – The True Story of Grigory and Alexandra was released in March 2023, with the highly controversial The Anne Boleyn Bible following in November, both again courtesy of Pen & Sword Books.

Mickey Mayhew

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Ibsen’s Ghosts at the Questors Theatre – A Review

A dark and emotionally charged production of Ghosts at the Questors Theatre.

Jasmine Guama

Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts is not a play that tries to win you over gently, and the production at the Questors Theatre did little to soften its impact. Set firmly within the Alving household and unfolding without an interval, the evening pressed forward with an...

The Noose of Samuel Burrows, by Nick Kevern

The story of Samuel Burrows, a hangman in the harsh world of Georgian Britain.

Nick Kevern

23rd April 1813 Samuel Burrows was more excited than ever. Today was going to be his day. He had held the position of Chester’s, and therefore Cheshire’s, executioner for four years. However, until this day, only a select few knew of his official duties. For...

Brian Williams

The author of a biography on Marshal Ney discusses the Napoleonic Wars and his historical influences

Brian Williams

Brian Williams, what first attracted you to the period or periods you work in? My father was a history teacher and one of my abiding memories of childhood is of him spreading a map out on the dinner party and showing me where Waterloo was. I had come home from a visit...

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Books of 2025 from Aspects of HistoryZeb Baker-Smith Editor of Aspects of HistorySeven Rivers by Vanessa Taylor explores how humanity and waterways have shaped one another across millennia, offering vivid historical portraits of the Nile, Danube, Ganges, Thames,...

Brian Williams

Brian Williams is a British historian and the author of Marshal Ney: Fall from Glory which was published in August 2025.

Brian Williams

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‘Specimens of Snobbery’: Cricket and the Hypocrisy of the Victorian Imagination

The psychology and morals of an era can be unearthed from the cricket's plotlines and characters.

Brendan Cooper

‘Specimens of Snobbery’: Cricket and the Hypocrisy of the Victorian Imagination ‘The national game of cricket,’ wrote Lord William Lennox in 1840, ‘has a peculiar claim to the people generally; and is one of those games open alike to all. It is free from selfishness,...

Thomas Messel

The novelist discusses writing and his ancestor, Elizabeth Linley.

Thomas Messel

Thomas Messel, what first attracted you to the period or periods you work in? The focus of my study was a late eighteenth-century ancestor called Elizabeth Linley. I was aware that she eloped with and married the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan, but initially, I...

Elizabeth Linley, 1754-1792

The story singer and the beacon of the Whig party.

Thomas Messel

Elizabeth Linley at the age of seventeen is England’s most celebrated singer. Her beauty and voice can captivate the King, or send an audience into a state of wild infectious hysteria, but suddenly and mysteriously she disappears during the night of March the 18th...

Thomas Messel

Thomas Messel has for forty years been a leading English furniture designer. He is also the author of two books. His non-fiction Oliver Messel in the Theatre of Design (Winner of the Speares Book Award 2012) was a comprehensive study of the life and work of his uncle, Oliver Messel. His current book, The Nightingale of Bath, is a historical fiction covering the life of his eighteenth-century ancestor, the singer and beacon of the Whig party, Elizabeth Linley.

Thomas Messel