The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
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...
Defenders of the Norman Crown Although I like to think that I know a bit about medieval history, I must confess that I knew almost nothing about the Warenne Earls of Surrey when I started reading this book. I certainly had no idea how influential they were but now I...
The White Ship A very long time ago, when I started working as a reporter for NBC News in the US, a veteran colleague spotted my general cluelessness. He kindly took me aside and gave me this nugget of golden advice: ‘There are only three reactions you want in the...
Harald Hardrada is one of the characters from history who has always fascinated me. I mean, anyone who goes by the moniker ‘Hard Ruler’ must have something about them, right? For the purposes of full transparency, though, I should point out that he has an...
Paul Bernardi’s Thurkill’s Rebellion picks up immediately where the second instalment of the Huscarl Chronicles left off. Forced back onto the run thanks to the fallout of the bloody events of Thurkill’s Battle, the protagonist finds himself in a new position of...
Many people of a certain age will recognise this quote without any difficulty. If you don't then I can only offer sympathy and suggest that there is a Monty Python-shaped hole in your movie and comedy education - specifically, in this case, Monty Python and the Holy...
Summer Reads from Aspects of HistoryPaul BernardiTaking a well-earned break from the adventures of Beobrand in his much-loved Bernicia Chronicles series, Matthew Harffy moves forward the best part of one hundred and fifty years in this, his most recent and...
In Paul Bernardi’s Thurkill's Battle, the second instalment of The Huscarl Chronicles series, Thurkill finds himself sworn into the service of Wessex’s last prince. Where Thurkill’s Revenge left a boy, we come back to our hero as a man. The opening brings us into the...
What first attracted you to writing a biography of Edward the Confessor? There were lots of reasons why I was interested in Edward! Perhaps primarily, his life spanned some of the most dramatic events and political upheavals in early medieval British history, from...
It is the story that every schoolchild is brought up on (or at least it was when I was at school in the dim distant past); that brave King Harold was killed at the Battle of Hastings by being shot in the eye with an arrow. But did it really happen? Have millions of...
