Monthly Archives: March 2023

A Blog on Rosa in New York

Rosa Rosenberg was one of the fascinating characters I came across researching The Prime Minister’s Affair. My interest in this clever, redoubtable champion of the Labour Party, Votes for Women, …

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On this Day

Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson will attempt to convince the Privileges Committee that he didn’t lie to parliament. By a strange coincidence – the sort that politics throws up all …

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Anniversary of assassination of Tsar Alexander 2

God, don’t you hate it when authors plug their back catalogues? Well, forgive me, but on this day in 1881, the Emperor of Russia, Alexander ll was assassinated in Petersburg …

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