Time to Relaunch!
Over the next few days, I’m going to be working on a refurbishment of this site, updating lots of the pages and information, freshening up the design, and doing whatever else strikes me as a good idea at the time. This is partly because this sort of ‘spring clean’ is long overdue, partly to reflect […]
The Tide is Coming In
I’m delighted to be able to announce that Destiny’s Tide, the first in my new naval historical trilogy set in the sixteenth century, is now available to pre-order on Amazon. I know that some of you prefer your books to have such ‘old school’ elements as paper, ink, and a reassuring bulk that weighs down your […]
Dead Admirals Society Memorabilia Edition
My most recent post, a revised version of my elegy for the ‘naval pub’, mentioned the issue of memorabilia and wider heritage which is lost for ever if such a pub is insensitively refurbished or simply closed for good. Over the years on this blog, I’ve also run an occasional series called ‘Dead Admirals Society’, […]
Revisiting The Death of the Naval Pub
Holiday time, i.e. minimal opportunity to think about blogging, but in any case, I thought it was high time I re-posted one of the most popular posts ever on this site – I can’t quite believe I first published this here almost five years ago! The content stands up pretty well, I think, although alas, […]
Money for Nothing; or, Why I Am Not on TV
A few years ago, I briefly threatened to become a TV historian – say, a cross between a more male and more Welsh version of Lucy Worsley, and a taller and less annoying version of David Starkey. A Dutch TV company was talking to me about a project related to what were then the forthcoming […]
Talk About It, and They Will Come
268. Two hundred and sixty eight. I know football and rugby teams who’d be pleased with that sort of attendance. 268 people would comfortably fill a decent-sized airliner, or man a large destroyer. And, let’s face it, 268 MPs changing their minds would deliver Theresa May’s Brexit deal by a landslide. Why, then, did this […]
