Build the Lenox
This week, I’m delighted to welcome a guest blogger – Helena Russell, secretary of the Build the Lenox project. I’ve blogged about this before on this site, but have recently become one of the project’s ‘champions’, and with its prospects currently at a crucial stage, I’m very happy to be able to provide this platform […]
Connecting the Oceans
This week, I’m giving a plug to a conference that I’m involved in co-organising. Just over fifty years ago, the future of Brunel’s iconic steamship SS Great Britain was in serious doubt. The ship had been a hulk in the Falkland Islands for many years, and was slowly deteriorating. There was a proposal to take […]
The Ideologization of Naval Power – the Book and the Symposium
This week, I’m delighted to welcome back guest blogger Gijs Rommelse to introduce the book on naval ideology that he, Alan James and I have co-edited. This is now available for pre-order from Routledge. In addition to the symposium in Vlaardingen, mentioned in the blog, the three of us are forming a panel at the […]
Oh Say Can You See
The big news this week is the publication of Destiny’s Tide, the first in my new trilogy set in the sixteenth century! But all things in their place, so I’ve talked about that in more detail on the ‘news’ page of this site. That being the case, here’s this week’s blog post… *** I grew […]
Tides of War
The countdown is under way – Destiny’s Tide, the first in my new trilogy of naval historical fiction set in the Tudor age, will be published in just over a fortnight’s time, on 27 June! It’s available for pre-order, but just a reminder that it’s currently only available in e-book format. *** The overall title […]
Drum in a Box
There are several legends regarding what might happen if and when Britain comes to the point of its ultimate crisis. One is that the ravens will abandon the Tower of London, thus causing its walls – and, indeed, the entire country – to collapse. But rejoice, this particular catastrophe has been averted, if only just, […]
