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BookPick: Two Historic Ships
Posted on November 3, 2015 5 Comments
The history of Great Britain is inextricably linked to the sea and sea power. Invaders – Romans, Danes, Vikings and others – came by sea as did trade from the Mediterranean and beyond. Dominance of the sea between the seventeenth to early twentieth centuries led to the building of a great imperial empire. While some […]
CONQUEST: the Race to Empire Begins!
Posted on August 26, 2014 5 Comments
A regular feature looking back on each of the Kydd titles – with story background, research highlights, writing challenges and more. And thank you for all your kind comments on the post about my eleventh book, Victory. The twelfth book in the series is Conquest. Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar removed the spectre of […]
VICTORY: Kydd at Trafalgar
Posted on August 9, 2014 10 Comments
A regular feature looking back on each of the Kydd titles – with story background, research highlights, writing challenges and more. And thank you for all your kind comments on the post about my tenth book, Invasion. The eleventh book in the Kydd series is Victory, which climaxes in Kydd’s involvement in Trafalgar, one of […]
The Sea Painters: Turner
Posted on November 22, 2013 2 Comments
Joseph Mallord William Turner, the greatest of the English Romantics and colourists, (1775-1851) was born in London, a stone’s throw from the River Thames. His father (like Tom Kydd’s) was a wig-maker. Although he painted many subjects, water would hold a fascination for Turner for the whole of his life. His seascapes range from peaceful […]
Cauls, Mary Carleton and the Chatham Chest!
Posted on November 20, 2013 4 Comments
[To leave a comment go right to the end of the page and just enter it in the ‘Leave a Reply’ box] In our household I’m the hoarder; not only physical artefacts from the past, numerous tins of assorted screws & wires, books & journals – but countless snippets and esoteric facts from the Golden […]
‘The Best Job in the World’: A Guide Aboard Victory
Posted on November 3, 2013 26 Comments
[To leave a comment go right to the end of the page and just enter it in the ‘Leave a Reply’ box] HMS VICTORY is among the most famous ships in history; the only surviving warship that fought in the American War of Independence, the French Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic wars. She served as […]
A Sterling Model!
Posted on August 8, 2013 9 Comments
[To leave a comment go right to the end of the page and just enter it in the ‘Leave a Reply’ box] After seeing my blog on HMS Victory yesterday Mike Softley emailed me some photographs of a very special model he was involved with. Mike takes up the story: ‘Victory was my second home […]
HMS Victory
Posted on August 7, 2013 25 Comments
[To leave a comment go right to the end of the page and just enter it in the ‘Leave a Reply’ box] There’ve been many famous ships in Britain’s proud history – Mary Rose, Golden Hinde, Cutty Sark, Trincomalee, Great Britain, Discovery … but one ship stands head and shoulders above the rest – HMS […]
Julian Stockwin 