Let's hear it for print books!

Are ebooks and print books in some sort of fierce battle to the death with one another in which the only outcome is total dominance?

Will ebooks soon drive their dinosaur cousin to extinction or will print books will see ebooks off and show the whole digital phenomenon to be a mere […]

Print the Legend! HNS 2026

(Photo courtesy of Sophie Perinot)

The (in)famous green jacket and I went to the very green island of Ireland for this year’s three-day Historical Novel Society conference.

West of Dublin, Maynooth University is a constituent university of the National University of Ireland and combines historical roots with modern technology – perfect for our […]

How did Romans cope with eclipses?

Yesterday, the world jostled, thrilled and was overcome with excitement by the total eclipse of the sun by the moon. We’ve had scientific explanations, videos of eclipse-chasers setting out, scenes from Burgos in Spain where rooms and hotels had been booked for months, even years to see the 100% eclipse. News headlines and social […]