Dawlish Chronicles

Some musings on a historical period that fascinates me, the latter half of the 19 th Century, "the day before yesterday" in hist...

In 1851 the English historian and jurist Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy  published  his  “ Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World ” . A different...

An Aid to Plotting: Maps and Thumbnails Both the world I write about - that of the Late Victorian Era -  I tend to take maps as a startin...

Sir Edmund Gosse - stuck in the basement! I first read "Father and Son" by Edmund Gosse (1849-1928) well over 40 years ago and...

This isn't directly relevant to the Dawlish Chronicles period but to that which followed and it's worth noting nonetheless. Ins...

When thinking oneself back into the Age of Mercantile Sail – which lasted up to WW2 – it is hard to imagine just what a menace was represen...

In “Britannia’s Wolf” , first book in my “Dawlish Chronicles” series, a key role is played by the heavily-armed Ottoman Turkish coast defe...