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Building Site!
Eagle-eyed regular visitors to this site will notice that the format has changed somewhat! This is a temporary move ahead of a full relaunch of my website, also integrating it fully with this blog,...
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The Return of That Other Guy
Conference season again. Last week – ‘Statesmen and Seapower’ at the National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth. This week – Naval Dockyards Society conference at the National Maritime Museum,...
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Repository Bingo, Part 2
gentlemenandtarpaulins:A reblog this week – am furiously trying to finalise my papers for the big Statesmen and Seapower conference at the National Museum of the Royal Navy in Portsmouth this week...
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Richard III, Game of Thrones, and Invading France
Pretty much everybody else on the interweb-thingy has had their fourpenn’orth about last week’s reburial of King Richard III, and I suppose it was only fitting that the events divided opinion just as...
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Repository Bingo, Part 1
gentlemenandtarpaulins:Pushed for time this week, so here’s a reblog of an early post that drew quite a big response – my ‘top ten’ repositories in the UK. There have been a few changes since I...
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Dead Admirals Society on Tour
I spent last week at a remote cottage in Shropshire, brainstorming ideas for new books. Shropshire, of course, is quite a long way from the sea, but even though I didn’t venture outside my ‘man cave’...
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Highways and Byways of the Seventeenth Century: the Artist’s Daughter
Sir Anthony van Dyck is rightly regarded as one of the towering figures of European art. However, he had only one legitimate child, Justina, or Justiniana, and tragically, he died just days after his...
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The Holy Grail? Somebody Left It on the Throne of Doom
We spent last week enjoying some ‘R&R’ at Rosslyn Castle, just outside Edinburgh. This is a Landmark Trust property, and regular readers of this blog will know that I/we are big fans of Landmarks,...
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Wolf in Musketeers’ Clothing
So there’s this history-based TV programme, based on a famous historical novel, which has a capricious King who’s desperate for a male heir, a flighty Queen called Anne who’s prone to sleeping with...
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Highways and Byways of the 17th Century: the ‘Royal Escape’
There was quite a big response to last week’s post on King Charles I’s possible illegitimate daughter, Joanna Bridges, so I thought I’d follow it up by instituting a new occasional series, ‘Highways...
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The Strange Case of King Charles I’s Hidden ‘Daughter’
One of the great delights of writing this blog, of having a website, and of being moderately active on Twitter, is that I sometimes gets really interesting feedback from those who follow me. Last...
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#2ADW350
Happy New Year to all! 2015 already, though…? I’m increasingly convinced that I fell through a worm hole in the space-time continuum in about 1976 and have largely lost track of things ever since. But...
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Merry Christmas, Restoration Navy Style
gentlemenandtarpaulins:I hoped to get a new post up this week, but have been stymied by a combination of domestic issues and by the fact that I’m preparing a couple of new posts for imminent...
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The Rage is Coming!
Cue drum roll…cue trumpets… Ladies and gentlemen, I’m pleased to announce that the next ‘Journal of Matthew Quinton’, the sixth book in the series, will be entitled The Rage of Fortune. But this is a...
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Flash Pepys, Saviour of the Universe
gentlemenandtarpaulins:Another re-blog of one of my early posts today – I’m about to lock myself away in a Landmark Trust property for a week so that I can complete the sixth Quinton novel without the...
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Keeping Up with the Joneses
Just in case anybody didn’t know, I’m [a] Welsh, and [b] an author of naval historical fiction. Now, the world contains quite a lot of Welsh people. The world also contains a lot of authors of naval...
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Dead Admirals Society, Part 4
Some new memorials today, in what will be the final post in this series for a few weeks – next week, I’ll return to other matters! *** In the summer, I gave a talk on Cornwall’s place in naval history...
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Dead Admirals’ Society, Part 2
gentlemenandtarpaulins:…and here’s the reblog of Part 2… Originally posted on Gentlemen and Tarpaulins: A few more memorials this week – and by popular demand (OK, that’s one of you, and you know who...
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Dead Admirals’ Society, Part 1
gentlemenandtarpaulins:As promised, here’s my reblog of the first post in my ‘Dead Admirals Society’ series, with number 2 to follow shortly. I hope to put up a new post in this series next week....
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Dead Admirals’ Society, Part 3
‘Hang on’, you say, ‘where are Parts 1 and 2, then?’ Well, in the relatively early days of this blog, I posted a couple of items under this title and promised that at some point in the future, I’d do...
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