by Geoffrey | Mar 29, 2021 | News
Confidence in what? Confidence is the title of my latest short story. Read the story and find out to what it refers! For once I’ve written a short story set in the present. If you want some more, try my collection of stories set in the past: Geoffrey’s...
by Geoffrey | Mar 8, 2021 | News
What matter of honour? This is the beginning of my novel Blood and Secrets. I set out my reasons for writing about the English Civil War in a previous post. This is also one of the short stories in my collection Geoffrey’s Historical Shorts, which I wrote about...
by Geoffrey | Mar 1, 2021 | News
The Tudors are on TV again! One of the Tudors, Elizabeth I, is back on the BBC on Wednesday nights as the 1970’s series Elizabeth R, starring Glenda Jackson, is repeated. I have said before that that family get more publicity in both drama and documentaries than...
by Geoffrey | Jan 14, 2021 | News
The Great What? The Great is a series on Channel Four about Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia. Some people think it is a great travesty of history, whilst others enjoy it. Controversy seldom does a TV series any harm and many features of this one make for...
by Geoffrey | Dec 22, 2020 | News
Karl Marx is famous, but not as a historian Marx was an economist, wasn’t he? Or you might think he was a politician. He certainly had a lot to say about economics and you can’t separate that from politics. However, Marx was not actively involved in...
