Folkestone Book Festival

Next Monday, 5 November, I'm speaking about the Norman Conquest at the Folkestone Book Festival. 6.30pm at the Quarterhouse, Tontine St.

Kings and Castles

I have a new book out! Kings and Castles is a collection of my magazine articles from the past decade - 15 in total, and two of them never before published. It's only available as an e-book, but can be downloaded to your PC as well as to your Kindle. Click the picture of the cover to go straight to its Amazon page.

Battle of Hastings 2012

On Sunday 14 October I'll be present at English Heritage's now traditional re-enactment of the Battle of Hastings at Battle Abbey, signing books in the EH marquee at 1.30pm, and probably hanging around the BBC History stand at other points in the afternoon.

Tomorrow (Tuesday) evening I'm speaking in Winchester to the Hampshire Writers' Association about the business of writing history books. On Thursday I'm leading a tour of Rochester Castle for members of English Heritage. For more info on either event, follow the links from the Public Appearances page.

Anyone who is interested in attending my talk on the Norman Conquest at Maidstone Museum on 20 October should note that the time has changed from 2pm to 10.30am, because that's the time the Museum have mistakenly printed in their events leaflet.