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Recent News

• 11th February 2024
  Courtly Quips for historical reenactments and entertainment by Gayla Groom
• 31st January 2024
  Memoirs of a Harrow Childhood by Judith Davies
• 28th January 2024
  Public Universal Friend – A debut historical novel by Jax Willoughby
• 9th September 2023
  Charles Dickens dead at his desk by Lyn Squire
• 6th June 2023
  Becoming a debut novelist at 82 – Patricia Reis and Sibylline Press
• 5th June 2023
  Sand in the Sandwiches – An evocative memory of a past summer by Kay Willcocks who took part in the Making Memoirs Memorable workshop.
• 25th May 2023
  Isle of Lewis, Devon and a love of goats
• 7th October 2022
  Jonathan Vischer’s debut novel delves into the life of Elizabeth Sawyer, who was hanged for witch craft in 1621
• 21st April 2022
  Is it common bluebells or is it wild garlic? Do they inspire the writer or the chef?
• 12th March 2022
  Mayflower Chronicles: The Tale of Two Cultures, Kathryn Brewster Haueisen & the overshadowed 400th anniversary of the sailing of the Mayflower
• 3rd November 2021
  The Not Quite Perfect Murderer and the City of Bath by Margaret Duffy
• 27th July 2021
  How does an author pick a setting for their novels? – Rebecca Tope lets us into a secret
• 27th June 2021
  Weird, Wonderful and Whacky – David Castleton writing about ‘Church Curiosities’
• 26th March 2021
  Streets that breathe history – Mary Tod and Paris
• 19th February 2021
  Mountain Climbers – Children Getting Active – Exeter Medical student creates an interactive physical fitness and well-being board game
• 18th February 2021
  What have the 1974 Revolution in Portugal and civil unrest in Zagreb in 1991 got to do with ‘Passion, Tragedy, and Revolution in the Age of Enlightenment’?
• 5th February 2021
  Downloadable Resource for Historical Fiction Writing – A practical guide and tool-kit, by Myfanwy Cook
• 6th January 2021
  Dark Nights and Dark Stories leading to Hope and Light
• 2nd October 2020
  An ‘Independent Bookshop’ making history in historic Okehampton (Devon, UK)
• 30th September 2020
  Museum Facts. Your daily dose of history facts. One fact at a time – providing historical novelists with inspiring snippets of hidden history
• 12th September 2020
  1945 Berlin – Haydn Corper and ‘The Scent of Lilacs’
• 19th August 2020
  ‘A MOST ENGLISH PRINCESS’ has captured the imagination of American novelist – Clare McHugh
• 6th June 2020
  Battles as settings for historical novels – Georgette Heyer and Terry C. Pierce
• 28th May 2020
  X marks the spot in America that ends a novel based on Peter Maher’s Irish ancestor Elizabeth Maher (1860-1949)
• 16th May 2020
  Local History and Community month – A 19th century self-isolation story from Tavistock a Devon market town
• 7th May 2020
  Bluebells, a children’s game and a flower fairy
• 9th April 2020
  Primrose Wine, Poetry and Primrose Day the 19th of April
• 31st March 2020
  A literary challenge to keep creative minds busy while in self-isolation
• 28th January 2020
  The Forgotten Women Writers of Tavistock a Market Town in Devon
• 31st December 2019
  A New Year thought for writers of crime fiction – Do crime fiction writers have a responsibility to eliminate medical inaccuracies?
• 20th October 2019
  Go Gothic Prize Winners
• 16th January 2019
• 3rd January 2019
  ‘A New Year’ and ‘A New Opportunity’ for Authors
• 10th November 2018
  For those whose lives did not have a happy ending
• 4th July 2018
  The American Boy – Seven intriguing facts for historical fiction writers about Dartmoor Prison
• 12th May 2018
  Time to Dance with Words
• 11th April 2018
  Creative Writing Cocktails: Shake and stir your creative inspiration
• 4th February 2018
  The ‘true’ scent of Austen’s London
• 23rd January 2018
  A ‘Bespoke’ corner of Austen’s London
• 24th October 2017
  Jane Austen’s London in the company of M.C. Beaton and Agatha Christie
• 13th September 2017
  Hidden History – Glimpses of Jane Austen’s Regency London
• 3rd July 2016
  History isn’t just about the past