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HWA at Harrogate History Festival

27 October 2016 By Editor

Find out what HWA members had to say about this year’s Harrogate History Festival…

Cecilia Eckbäck Wins The Debut Crown!

22 October 2016 By Editor

Cecilia Ekbäck wins the 2016 HWA Goldsboro Debut Crown for her novel Wolf Winter. 

A Weekend of History

6 October 2016 By Tom Harper

Tom Harper, Harrogate History’s Programming Chair, tells us what to expect at this year’s festival. London’s burning. Nero fiddles. In the shadow of the iron curtain, and in occupied France, spies swap secrets and betrayals. Revolution brews in Paris and Moscow, tanks rumble through the Ardennes, while dragons circle over the Iron Throne of Westeros.  […]

HNS Conference 2016

8 September 2016 By Deborah Swift

Deborah Swift reports on this year’s Historical Novel Society Conference in Oxford. This year’s Historical Novel Society Conference was held in Oxford, a beautiful and historic setting for what turned out to be a thought-provoking event for writers and readers of what has come to be labelled ‘historical fiction’. The conference itself was based in […]

Debut Crown Longlist Revealed!

12 June 2016 By Editor

Twelve remarkable books will fight it out in the race for this year’s HWA Goldsboro Debut Crown

Shakespeare In Ten Acts

4 May 2016 By Jason Hewitt

Unless you’ve been walking around with your head in a bag you’ll know that 2016 marks the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death. It’s hardly surprising then that, whether you’re a dedicated Bard-o-holic or just someone with a casual interest, there’s a plethora of exhibitions on offer to you this year that provide plenty of […]

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