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June 2025

Hiatus
Just a quick note.
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PHOTO ARTICLE: Ring of Fire, 'Lost' Images
When it came to selecting the images for the book, we had forty to choose.
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ARTICLE: Nelson Vibes, 1809
So I was exploring the excellent chaos that is Camilla’s bookshop in Eastbourne with Peter Caddick-Adams and Stephen Fisher, when I pulled off the shelf…
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FREE BOOK PREVIEW: Churchill and the First World War
Swift Press have embarked on a project to produce small, manageable introductions on the history of Britain’s Prime Ministers.
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PHOTO ARTICLE: Somme, 1916
A quick one today.
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ARTICLE: Somme, 1940
The French just aren’t that fussed about Dunkirk.
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ARTICLE: Notable Trials: Another Reason Not to Eat Dundee Cake, 1881
Today, it’s another tale from the “notable trial” series of books published over a number of years prior to the First World War by Hodge & Company.
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May 2025

ARTICLE: Indian Valour in Africa 1941-2
A few months ago I did a piece based on a guidebook to India that was presented to soldiers bound for the sub-continent.
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ARTICLE: A Snapshot of War, 1915
This was fun last time, so I thought I would delve back into a pile of French magazines and see what was newsworthy in week during the First World War.
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ARTICLE: The Paris Commune, 1871
You know that saying, well behaved women rarely make history?
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