Writers Digest (unofficial)Jan 27
Mike Pitts: Use Your Voice https://www.writersdigest.com/mike-pitts-use-your-voice #Writer'sDigestAuthorSpotlight #WriteBetterNonfiction #AuthorSpotlightSeries #HistoricalNonfiction #AuthorSpotlights #HistoricalBooks #AuthorSpotlight #BeInspired #Interviews
Mike Pitts: Use Your Voice

In this interview, author Mike Pitts discusses the decades of curiosity and research that led to his new book, Island at the Edge of the World.

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Wendy PalmerJan 18

Interesting podcast about the “also-ran” serial killer of 1880s London, totally eclipsed by Jack the Ripper:

https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/betwixt-the-sheets-the-history-of-sex-scandal-society/id1612090432

AND if your interest is whetted, the book they mention as offering up a very plausible suspect is currently on mega-sale at Kobo (Au store anyway):

https://www.kobo.com/au/en/ebook/arm-of-eve

#truecrime #historicalNonFiction #podcasts #books
@bookstodon

Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society

History Podcast · Updated Twice Weekly · Join sex historian Dr Kate Lister on Betwixt the Sheets as she gets intimate with the stories that would make your history teacher blush. What were the Victorians really like behind closed (bedroom) d...

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EkimellneaJan 14
170 survivors shared their stories. Soldiers, civilians, letters, voices from the fire. It’s not about medals. It’s about survival.
#HistoricalNonfiction #WWIIStories
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/battle-for-germany-book-review/
EkimellneaDec 15
Before the wall, 3.5 million East Germans walked to freedom. One-fifth of a country emptied itself. The bleeding had to stop. Communist leaders built their prison from concrete.
#HistoricalNonFiction #EuropeanHistory #WeekendRead
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/berlin-wall/
Marcus BrandelDec 12

#FossilFriday - #LostBones #5 on Substack: "In April 1967, Burgess Construction employee Ivan Brouwer, a dragline operator working along a creek during the construction of Minnesota’s Interstate 94 (I-94) just east of the city of Melrose Minnesota, uncovered a mass of jumbled bones in a peat deposit approximately 15 feet below the original ground surface..."

https://open.substack.com/pub/marcusbrandel/p/lost-bones-5-from-the-ashes-a-fire

Share to support my volunteer effort!

#Writing #HistoricalNonFiction #CitizenScience
#melrosehistoricalmuseum

EkimellneaDec 1
The book shows how British intelligence manufactured evidence to convince America to enter the war. Sometimes lies serve truth. Sometimes deception serves freedom.
#HistoricalNonFiction #WarStrategy
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/man-called-intrepid/
Man Called Intrepid (2024 Review)

The true story of Sir William Stephenson (Man Called Intrepid), whose spy network and secret diplomacy changed the course of World War II.

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Life JapanNov 21
https://www.wacoca.com/life/321099/ Lost Ships and Lonely Seas ⛵🌊🧭 | Epic True Tales from the High Seas #AdventureAudiobook #AgeOfSail #AudiobookNarration #ClassicAudiobooks #ClassicLiterature #exploration #HandCream #HistoricalNonfiction #LostShipsAndLonelySeas #MaritimeHistory #Nautical #OceanMysteries #PublicDomain #RalphDelahayePaine #Sailing #SeaStories #seafaring #shipwrecks #ShortStoryCollection #StorytimeHaven #TrueStories #yt:cc=on #サボンバターハンドクリームグリーン・ローズ
Holland House BooksNov 18

The Woolfs, the Hogarth Press and the Book Society - Nicola Wilson guides us around crucial landmarks, personalities and influencers in book reading culture in the Holland House Podchat - now on Spotify & Youtube :

https://youtu.be/OOPKQKMFsZQ
https://open.spotify.com/episode/51gH6vGfZtkxuhwuisjj7f

#newtitles #bookstodon #outnow #publishing #pieterbruegel #podcastshow #historicalnonfiction #whattoreadnext #bookchat

EkimellneaNov 12
Hillenbrand's vivid storytelling blends history with human drama, making Unbroken both a compelling war story and an uplifting narrative of human endurance.
#MustRead #HistoricalNonfiction #BookRecommendation
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Writers Digest (unofficial)Nov 10
Matthew Davis: Focus on What You Can Control https://www.writersdigest.com/matthew-davis-focus-on-what-you-can-control #Writer'sDigestAuthorSpotlight #WriteBetterNonfiction #AuthorSpotlightSeries #HistoricalNonfiction #AuthorSpotlights #HistoricalBooks #AuthorSpotlight #BeInspired #Interviews
Matthew Davis: Focus on What You Can Control

In this interview, author Matthew Davis discusses learning to trust his vision during editor changeovers with his new historical nonfiction, A Biography of a Mountain.

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