The London Gazette
On 7 November 1665 The London Gazette, the oldest surviving English newspaper and the oldest continuously published newspaper in the UK, started life as The Oxford Gazette. Why the name...
Bronte Birthday
On January 17, 1820 the highly literary (and tragically short-lived) Bronte family added its youngest member: a daughter named Anne. Anne was born in the village of Thornton in Yorkshire,...
Making History
All authors want to be published and relatively well known in their lifetimes. Some are. And a few of those (very few) actually manage to help change history. One of...