The Story of George Loveless and the Tolpuddle Martyrs Synopsis Dorset folk and millions worldwide are familiar with the story of the six men from the village of Tolpuddle, the so-called ‘Tolpuddle Martyrs’, who in the year 1834 were persecuted by the authorities and driven out of their native land...
Arthur Conan Doyle: The Man Behind Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle: Synopsis Sir Arthur Conan Doyle would have preferred to be remembered as an historical novelist, but the public insisted that it was his fictional detective character, ‘Sherlock Holmes’ whom they wanted more and more of. Holmes’s methods were akin to those of Doyle’s former tutor at medical...
Winston Churchill: Portrait of an Unquiet Mind
Winston Churchill: Synopsis On top of the piano in her living room, my great-grandmother kept a treasured, handwritten letter from Winston Churchill in a sliver frame. During the Second World War she had written to Britain’s wartime leader to congratulate him on his handling of the war. This was his...
Charles Darwin: Destroyer of Myths
Charles Darwin: Synopsis When Charles Darwin sailed to South America, and in particular the Galapagos Islands of the west coast of Chile, as a naturalist aboard the good ship HMS Beagle in the year 1831, his observations of the flora and fauna would lead him to formulate his Theory of...