I have had a few issues recently with my websites. This explains the departure of my Twitter feeds. But thanks to the efforts of my son-in-law Dan the problems appear to be resolved now. Sorry if I have missed any messages or anything but everything seems to working properly once more.
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Book Signing
I will be signing books in Waterstone’s in Swansea tomorrow, 27 July 2013 between 12.00pm and 2.00pm – Swansea Murders. It features 25 of Swansea’s most notorious crimes….
Publication Update
I have been told by History Press that Swansea Murders will be published on 25 June 2013. I shall keep you updated, but the publicity machine is starting to spring into action. Very soon it will be interviews and book signings….
Writing update
The new edition of Welsh Country Magazine (May 2013) contains my latest piece of work for them – the story of the submarine Thetis, wrecked off Anglesey in 1939 with huge loss of life on sea trials. It was recovered, refitted and renamed. As The Thundbolt it was on duty in the Mediterranean when it…
Swansea Library Friday 1 March 2013
I am speaking in the Discovery Room at Swansea Library at 3.30 pm on Friday 1 March 2013. The title of my talk? The Swansea Society for the Acquisition of Useful Knowledge – Relaunched! Come and find out about Valentine Rimell and so much more….
Glamorgan Family History Society
I had a very pleasant evening last Monday when I was invited to speak at a meeting of the Glamorgan Family History Society. There was a good audience (including my very own family history, my mother and mother in law) and I spoke for a little over an hour. I looked at Valentine’s Day and…
Swansea Book of Days
Pleased to report that I have received and returned my contract from History Press for a new book – The Swansea Book of Days. I am to deliver the text in June 2014 and it will be released in 2015. Before then I have to complete and submit Welsh History. Strange but True, probably for the…
Harper Twelvetrees Bug Destroyer
Been down in the library today and found this advertisement in the Cambrian newspaper for January 1861. A most delicious dainty for vermin! Seems a bargain and to me – and it eliminates Bedroom Pests as well. Exterminates these tormenting pests by millions. Sounds essential to me.
A Bit of Needle
This is taken from the Cambrian Newspaper in 1856. It deals with an extraordinary operation necessitated by a most singular accident. It involved a young Irishman who was, as they say, larking about with some young country women. He grabbed a buxom girl who was engaged in seamstress work and hugged her.But as he pressed…
New Blog – Bedside Manners
Just posted a new blog called Bedside Manners. It is a story from North Wales in the seventeenth century. An altogether different approach to medical practice….