Arthur Bryant "Set In A Silver Sea" (Granada Books)


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David Aaronovitch "Voodoo Histories: How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History"  (Vintage)


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Ben McIntyre "A Spy Among Friends" (Bloomsbury)


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Eric Hobsbawm "Uncommon People: Resistance, Rebellion and Jazz" (Abacus)


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Michael Williams "On The Slow Train:  Twelve Great British Railway Journeys" (Arrow)


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Sarah Bradford "Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy" (Penguin Books)


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Elizabeth Norton "Anne of Cleves: Henry VIII's Discarded Bride" (Amberley Publishing)


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That it's the 100th anniversary of the Radio Times magazine.

That it's the 50th anniversary of the email.

William Doyle "The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford Universsity Press)


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After the rainy day we had on Thursday it was a great relief that it was a sunny warm day at around 21C. It was also the day that I would meet another lLPong-time LJ friend in the flesh, so to speak.

That friend, clandestiny, the polymath known as Pamela, came to visit our historical town of Faversham from Guildford, and we met outside the Railway Hotel a ( Read more... )