Features
Writing Fiction Off the Edge: The Walrus Mutterer
Imagine the thrill of having written about a walrus hunt in Orkney, set over one and a half thousand years…
Ahead of Their Time: Forgotten Female Surrealists
Rupert Thomson speaks to Mary Sharratt about his novel, Never Anyone But You. While Frida Kahlo is arguably the world’s…
Q and A with our 2018 New Novel Award Judge, Catherine Cho
Huge thanks to Catherine for offering to choose the winner from our 2018 shortlisted novels, and also for taking the…
Sky Girls by Gene Nora Jessen Features Fearless Female Flyers of Historic 1929 Air Race
As a small boy I watched the RAF and the Luftwaffe fight it out in the skies above England. I…
Dreams of Falling by Karen White Continues the Tradition of Stories Set in the US South
The US South has been immortalized in novels such as Gone with the Wind, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Color…
Weather and Food History: Story Ideas and Research Sources
Are you a stickler for research, wanting to get even the weather correct for the time period in your…
The Dutch Wife by Ellen Keith Shines a Spotlight on Forgotten Victims of History
In The Dutch Wife, debut novelist Ellen Keith shines a spotlight on two forgotten victims of history: prostitutes in Nazi…
New books by HNS members, May 2018
Congrats to the following authors on their new releases! If you’ve written a historical novel or nonfiction work published (or…
A Bear Named Cuff: Linda Spalding’s A Reckoning
An author reckons with her family’s checkered antebellum history The cub is one of the vivid characters in Linda Spalding’s…
Philadelphia, 1918: Susan Meissner and Mindy Tarquini on the Influenza Pandemic
Susan Meissner and Mindy Tarquini discuss their new novels The 1918-19 influenza pandemic claimed an estimated 50 million lives worldwide.…
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- Jerry Bennett on "Pictures and reports from the HNS Conference in Scotland, 2018": This was my first HNS conference, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. My …
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