All the Fun of the Fair – by Jennifer Briancourt

The London Book Fair is overwhelming and vast, heaving with vibrant stands and populated by like-minded book-lovers, writers, agents and publishers. On arrival, I immediately head for one of the seminars I am planning to attend; my intended schedule is optimistically (and unrealistically) crammed. After half an hour of anxious ambling, I wisely acquire directions [...]

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The Role of the War Correspondent- by Ian Hernon

The death in February of Sunday Times war correspondent provided another name in the casualty roll call of an honourable and brave profession. Newspaper journalists, as I know after more than four decades of being one, are too often held in low public esteem until they pay the ultimate price for a story. Reporters like [...]

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Win 1 of 5 promo codes for our new iPad App – Titanic: Her Journey

On the 15th of March we released our new iPad App Titanic: Her Journey. Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the sinking of the ship, the app is the definitive interactive Titanic experience, telling the story of her maiden voyage in the most engaging way to date. With features such as interactive deck plans, detailed biographies [...]

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Harry H.Corbett: The Front Legs of the Cow – Launch Event at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East

Last Tuesday over sixty guests attended in what was the official launch of Harry H. Corbett: The Front Legs of Cow. Held at the Theatre Royal Stratford East, the event included speeches from author Susannah Corbett, Harry Greene (who first met Harry sixty three years ago) and Murray Melvin (long term archivist of the Theatre [...]

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‘A Parachute in the Lime Tree’ launch- by local editor Declan Flynn

Tuesday night saw the launch of A Parachute in the Lime Tree by Annemarie Neary. This is the second fiction title to come from History Press Ireland and it has really set us on our way.  The launch was held in Pushkin House (www.pushkinhouse.org/en) based in Bloomsbury Square and I can think of few better [...]

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The Dangerous World of the Victorian Operating Theatre – by Lynne Wilson

During the Victorian era, medicine and health care increasingly improved, and with the development of anaesthetics, surgery became increasingly more advanced, as surgeons were able to take time and care with operations, rather than the previous method of performing them as quickly as possible before the patient died from shock. Glasgow Royal Infirmary, which opened [...]

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@TitanicRealTime – Experience Titanic’s voyage with our new Twitter account

Experience Titanic’s epic journey with day-by-day and minute-by-minute tweets as if from on board the ship itself The voyage begins on 10th March 2012… Utilising the research of some of the world foremost experts, @TitanicRealTime will take you on a trip through time to experience Titanic’s maiden voyage in the most innovative and personal way [...]

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The Best Worst Football Kits – A feature by Richard Leatherdale

I think the idea to make a book about the worst football kits came from a conversation between me and my good friend Jamie. The novel thought was that we’d write it ourselves, but we both knew we probably wouldn’t. For starters, we couldn’t even decide which ones to include – it is a divisive [...]

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The President with the beret and the scarf……a tale of Sarajevo

Every night our TV screens were filled with images of civilians running for their lives from Serb artillery and snipers raining death down on a European city that had not so long ago hosted the Winter Olympics, and then, standing in front of the door to No.10 Downing Street, the PM John Major, his voice [...]

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Editor Jo De Vries talks about Remembrance Day and the act of remembering

We don’t like to talk about death, as a nation we shy away from the subject, because it makes us uncomfortable. We live in a world where growing old, dying and death are taboo; where we celebrate the young and seek eternal youth through faddy diets, face creams and the power of modern science. Mourning [...]

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