Stephen McGinty One Morning in March: Dunblane and the Shooting that Changed Britain with Julian Worricker Thirty years ago, Britain was horrified when a man walked into a Dunblane primary school and shot dead a teacher and 16 children before killing himself. One Morning in March by Stephen McGinty recounts the lead-up to that day […]
Catherine Mayer Divide & Rule Royal Women and their Battles with Steven Gale Catherine Mayer uncovers the extraordinary women behind the myths. Her portraits of Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth I, Victoria, Elizabeth II, Diana, Camilla, Kate and Meghan are fascinating, poignant, surprising and enraging, revealing them in all their complexity, charting their achievements, quirks, kindnesses, cruelties […]
Paul O’Keeffe Trafalgar Battle and Aftermath with Julian Worricker About 1.15 in the afternoon of 21 October 1805, Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson was struck by a 22-gramme, 15-millimetre French musket. O’Keeffe gives us a front-row view of the Battle of Trafalgar; and in his unflinching portrayal of the brutal reality of naval warfare, he tells […]
