10 Historical Events I Want to Write About

This is a bit of a rubbish list. I have not given much thought to it tonight (though I have done over many years). June/July 2020, I wrote a 30,000 word children's book about Julius Caesar's landings in southern Britain in 55 and 54 BC. It sits in a folder on my shelf, unedited. 30 years ago I recall writing a diary about the Spanish Armada at primary school. Looking at the list, only two events have I not written about or given talks upon (at school, university or in public) - the Battle of Britain and the Miners' Strike. At least, I can't recall ever writing about the Battle of Britain ... I must have though. I love the process of reading/researching (the two can't be separated when using secondary and primary material I believe), writing and sharing. It has been a few years since I have engaged in this process. I miss it. I say the list is a bit rubbish as it is superficial (except for the Anglo-Algiers War of 1677-1682 - I spent many years working on this maritime conflict). What I love, is integrating the landscape into this process. I really want to write about monasteries, monks, nuns and the communities they lived in during the Anglo-Saxon period in what is now England - probably before the 800s, just on the eve of the arrival of the Vikings. They would, though, be just over the horizon.