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I have always been fascinated by the sheer scale of the Battle of Jutland. I spent months researching the battle at the age of 13 when I s...

A decade or so ago, I was finishing my book about the relationship between Columbus, Cabot and Vespucci, and their race for America (you can...

Regular readers of this blog (if there are any now that I’m no longer a regular writer of it) will know that I also have a minor side-caree...

Dylan Thomas has very kindly returned at my invitation from the Hereafter, where he is running a small bar, to write for the Steyning Festiv...

Fancy going to Accident and Emergency with conjunctivitis. I mean, what kind of feckless, ignorant type would do that? That was the sort o...

When I started publishing on my own account at the end of last year, I don't think I realised how satisfying it would be to publish othe...

I used to be a planning journalist. In those days, I covered the case of the fifty foot shark built on the roof of a terraced house in Oxfo...