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The Last Ballad by Wiley Cash is an Eloquent Tribute to Forgotten Mill Workers
One hundred years ago this year my father started work as a bobbin boy in a cotton mill near Manchester,…
New books by HNS members, November 2017
Here’s another lengthy list of new releases by HNS author members for consideration for your TBR piles. Books are in…
Red Pencil: Liberty Boy
Cindy Vallar analyzes the work behind published manuscripts. In this issue, she examines how David Gaughran fleshes out scenes in…
Letters to Loved Ones: How the Postal Service Helped to Win the Great War
They say the pen is mightier than the sword, and this may never be truer than during a time of…
Sugar Money: Jane Harris on Where Fact and Imagination Meet
The basis for many a strong historical novel is a true story, even if that story has come down to…
A Triumphant Return: Minette Walters’ The Last Hours
After a gap of ten years, Minette Walters’ new novel is a game changer for the author once dubbed the…
The Footsteps of Katharina: Margaret Skea on the Wife of Martin Luther
Every writer of historical fiction knows how important research is. For some it may be a necessary chore that distracts…
Russian Revolutionary Reads
For first-hand witnesses of the Russian Revolution and Civil War, the shattering events of those years were a story that…
Between the Lines: Deborah Swift on the Women in Pepys’ Diary
Samuel Pepys’ Diary is the foremost resource for life in 17th-century London, and the diary is justly famous for Pepys’s…
The Historical & the Utopian: Or, The Line Between Fact and Invention
The list of historical novels grows ever longer, as does the list of utopian (nowadays, more likely dystopian) novels. Yet…
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- Sarah Johnson on "New books by HNS members, February 2018": So glad you've been enjoying the feature, Cynthia. It's been great to …
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