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Remembering Culloden

16 April 2021 By Frances Owen

The battle of Culloden was fought 275 years ago, on 16 April, 1746. While the date of the battle may not be as well known as 1066 or 1314, the battlefield itself, just outside Inverness, is an important tourist destination. Apart from this year’s being a major anniversary, Frances Owen asks, why and how … Continue Reading

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Catherine of Braganza, the neglected Queen

12 April 2021 By Linda Porter

"One of the greatest and most illustrious princesses in the world." If contemporaries thought highly of Catherine of Braganza, why has history … Continue Reading

HWA Crowns winners interviews: Toby Green

8 April 2021 By Richard Genet

Toby Green is the 2020 winner of the Historical Writers’ Association Non-Fiction Crown Award for his ground-breaking book, A Fistful of Shells. … Continue Reading

Review: Fortune’s Soldier by Alex Rutherford

4 April 2021 By Richard Hopton

Novelist and historian Richard Hopton reviews Alex Rutherford’s latest novel, Fortune’s Soldier, for Historia. Fortune’s Soldier is Alex … Continue Reading

People-smuggling in Tudor and Jacobean times

1 April 2021 By KJ Maitland

The Drowned City, the first in KJ Maitland's Daniel Pursglove series of historical crime novels, is set in Bristol in 1606 – a year after the … Continue Reading

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HWA Crowns winners interviews: Jane Healey

28 March 2021 By Harriet Stevens

Jane Healey's The Animals of Lockwood Manor won the 2020 HWA Debut Crown Award, which celebrates new voices in historical fiction. In this atmospheric gothic tale of family madness, long-buried secrets and hidden … Continue Reading

HWA Crowns winners interviews: Andrew Taylor

1 February 2021 By Poppy Evans

Andrew Taylor is a historical crime novelist and won this year’s HWA Gold Crown Award for his book The King’s Evil. The novel is set in the late 17th century and is the third in his James Marwood series. Andrew … Continue Reading

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Review: Fortune’s Soldier by Alex Rutherford

4 April 2021 By Richard Hopton

Novelist and historian Richard Hopton reviews Alex Rutherford’s latest novel, Fortune’s Soldier, for Historia. Fortune’s Soldier is Alex Rutherford’s latest Indian historical epic, a successor to the Empire of … Continue Reading

Review: The Prophet by Martine Bailey

21 March 2021 By Catherine Hokin

Martine Bailey’s latest novel The Prophet is a sequel to 2019’s The Almanack and is another beautifully crafted story balanced on the cusp of the old world and the new, writes Catherine Hokin. The Almanack took … Continue Reading

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