Mr Beeston and the Cockpit: A Brief History of the Phoenix Theatre (1616 - 1666).
The Cockpit Theatre in Drury Lane was initially, as its name suggests, a venue for cockfights and animal baiting on the east side of...
Review: A Divided Inheritance by Deborah Swift.
I wasn’t sure what to expect when I got this novel (disclosure I won it in a competition) and the author has been particularly nice about...
King Canute: A thousand year anniversary.
A thousand years is a pretty momentous anniversary, but in this year of historical celebration and remembrance -The Somme (100 years),...
Review: The Worst Man on Mars, by Mark Roman and Corben Duke.
This next review is a bit of a departure from my historical genre. It’s a book I originally came across on the now defunct Authonomy...
Review - 1666: Plague, War, and Hellfire by Rebecca Rideal.
This was a book I got wind of about a month ago and eagerly ordered, and then at its launch there was a bit of a twitter historical...
Sir William Davenant and the origins of Humpty Dumpty.
William Davenant is not much remembered today, but in the Seventeenth Century he was a literary collosus. The syphylitic -...