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Facebook/Meta has decided to limit organic links in posts or in comments on Pages to two per month. So, if I post on my Facebook AlisonMortonAuthor Page with a link to a new blogpost on either my main blog or here, or if I link to an article from an outside source, I can only do this twice a month. Currently, I post nearly every day on my Page, so potentially 30 links.

Size always matters, and the Romans knew it. A quick look at land, coins and a load of old rubbish... The Roman Empire once included all, or part of, nearly 50 countries At the empire’s greatest extent in AD 117 under Trajan, Roman territory stretched from northern Britain to southern Egypt near the Sudanese border, from the Atlantic coast of Portugal to the Persian Gulf and from Casablanca in northern Africa almost to the Caspian Sea.

Available from Amazon UK and Amazon US It’s 1672, and Matthew Graham and his family have left Scotland. Having taken the drastic decision t...

A river that is home to about 500 saltwater crocodiles is given the OK to host Olympic and Paralympic rowing and canoeing events at the 2032 Brisbane Games.

Are ebooks and print books in some sort of fierce battle to the death with one another in which the only outcome is total dominance? Will ebooks soon drive their dinosaur cousin to extinction or will print books will see ebooks off and show the whole digital phenomenon to be a mere flash in the pan? Neither of these outcomes is likely…

No, not Inspector Morse, but the St Hilda's Crime Fiction Writing Weekend with the theme of Bad Apples – Crime fiction’s enemies and anti-heroes. In all my sixteen plus years of writing thrillers, this was my first time at this high quality and fun weekend. It's been going for 33 years! The original Victorian building was impressive and the modern additions carefully blended in.

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In his book 'Pox Romana,' Colin Elliott delves into the devastating effects of the Antonine Plague, a pandemic that might have hastened the decline of one of history's greatest empires.

Simon and Schuster  27 August 2026 Thanks to the publisher for the invitation to read this book Sometimes the right story leads you home . ....

The (in)famous green jacket and I went to the very green island of Ireland for this year's Historical Novel Society conference. West of Dublin, Maynooth University is a constituent university of the National University of Ireland and combines historical roots with modern technology. I was delighted to contribute a talk on alternative history on the Saturday – more below! Never having visited it, I enthusiastically went on the Friday excursion to the…