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Monday, 30 June 2014

Dawlish Chronicles: Mid-Year Milestone, an End and a Beginning

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Today I laid aside my corrected first draft of my fifth Dawlish Chronicles novel. I started it in July last year and gave myself 12 month...
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Friday, 27 June 2014

The Royal Navy's End of Fighting Sail – Sidon, Beirut and Acre 1840

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Though steam propulsion was first applied to warships, on a small scale, in the late 1830s, it was to take another half-century before sail...
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Monday, 23 June 2014

Touching History – literally – at Fort Nelson

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An extract from Britannia’s Wolf , the reality of an army in defeat: “They've been retreating for ten days, in action all the time,...
Friday, 20 June 2014

The Imperial German Navy 1902 - sketches of life on board ship

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My blog this week is based on my recent discovery of a German 1902 publication entitled "Germany's Honour on the World...
Monday, 16 June 2014

Did Victorians react differently to violence than we do? How to handle this in fiction?

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A few months ago one of the first readers of Britannia’s Wolf sent me the question below: “Today’s readers do not have the same sensib...
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Thursday, 5 June 2014

Book Launch: Alison Morton’s SUCCESSIO

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I had a splendidly enjoyable evening yesterday when I attended the launch in London of Alison Morton’s SUCCESSIO, the third novel in her ve...
Friday, 30 May 2014

Britain and France confront Argentina - the Battle of Obligado, 1845

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British ships (right) and French ships (left) move up the Parana river towards Argentinian defences, November 20th 1845 Today, whe...
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