Some Civil War content this morning. A reasonably recently published book. I’m fascinated by Fremont and in particular the strange, eccentric cloud of Europeans that gathered around him and his staff early in the war… 🇺🇸 📚 #histbookchat

Some Civil War content this morning. A reasonably recently published book. I’m fascinated by Fremont and in particular the strange, eccentric cloud of Europeans that gathered around him and his staff early in the war… 🇺🇸 📚 #histbookchat

Newly published in the UK and its more ‘Hessian’ content! 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 📚 #histbookchat

Newly published in the UK and its more ‘Hessian’ content! 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 📚 #histbookchat

Love the Folio Society editions. Managed to pick up a copy of The Prisoner of Zenda, a delightful yarn! 📚

Love the Folio Society editions. Managed to pick up a copy of The Prisoner of Zenda, a delightful yarn! 📚

Another haul from Ken Trotman books and its wargaming content for the 18th century, both the War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years War. 📚 #readingndrinking

Another haul from Ken Trotman books and its wargaming content for the 18th century, both the War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years War. 📚 #readingndrinking

It’s time! @blackredcoats.bsky.social’s Black Redcoats and the Harbour Special from Tintagel Brewery. I’ve dipped into the book before but this is the full cover to cover. From the start it’s pretty epic and uplifting. #readingndrinking #histbookchat

I deny any hand in the pouring of this beer!

The day after the Cape St. Vincent anniversary, it’s time to look at what arrived in the post yesterday: Roger Morriss on the Royal Navy 🌊 🇬🇧 📚 #histbookchat

She thinks it’s a dinner to celebrate Valentine’s Day, but you’ve left enough clues that you’re really celebrating the Battle of Cape St. Vincent…

I’ve been hunting for “The Manning of the British Navy during The Seven Years War” at a decent price for awhile now. It’s only little but I pops up in every bibliography that touches on the Royal Navy in the War (and some later wars!) 🌊 🇬🇧 📚 #histbookchat

Happy Valentine’s Day! Only one of these connections should be tricky!

I’ve been hunting for “The Manning of the British Navy during The Seven Years War” at a decent price for awhile now. It’s only little but I pops up in every bibliography that touches on the Royal Navy in the War (and some later wars!) 🌊 🇬🇧 📚 #histbookchat

Grabbed a history of the 78th Fraser’s Highlanders from the ‘45 to the War of 1812. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 📚 #histbookchat

Grabbed a history of the 78th Fraser’s Highlanders from the ‘45 to the War of 1812. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 📚 #histbookchat

With all the British (and occasional German and Russian) memoirs in my library, it’s always worth trying to broaden the French section. I’ve bought one of the great Jonas de Neef’s translations to beef up the French voices in my library. 🇫🇷 📚 #histbookchat

With all the British (and occasional German and Russian) memoirs in my library, it’s always worth trying to broaden the French section. I’ve bought one of the great Jonas de Neef’s translations to beef up the French voices in my library. 🇫🇷 📚 #histbookchat

Any one for the Great Northern War? Peter the Great? Sabaton’s song about Poltava? Yesterday’s haul might be for you. 😂 🇷🇺 📚 #histbookchat

Any one for the Great Northern War? Peter the Great? Sabaton’s song about Poltava? Yesterday’s haul might be for you. 😂 🇷🇺 📚 #histbookchat

Well that’s Volume II here and it’s only taken a second mortgage! It might be a couple of months before I get vol III. Still it’s a stellar list of contributors! Berkovich, Conway, Schneid, Gill, Glover, Knight, @charlesesdaile.bsky.social @amikaberidze.bsky.social, Leggiere, and more! #histbookchat

Well that’s Volume II here and it’s only taken a second mortgage! It might be a couple of months before I get vol III. Still it’s a stellar list of contributors! Berkovich, Conway, Schneid, Gill, Glover, Knight, @charlesesdaile.bsky.social @amikaberidze.bsky.social, Leggiere, and more! #histbookchat

Tonight on #readingndrinking it’s Feeding Nelson’s Navy and Fullers Brewery Imperial Stout. 🌊 🍻 📚 #histbookchat

Another Galvez and American Revolution book I discovered in a charity shop. I now know to look out for these on Spain’s contribution… 🇪🇸 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 📚 #histbookchat

Another Galvez and American Revolution book I discovered in a charity shop. I now know to look out for these on Spain’s contribution… 🇪🇸 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 📚 #histbookchat

Yesterday’s second hand haul: those quarrelsome French are attacking the nation of shopkeepers at sea! A 1989 book on French privateering. 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🌊 📚 #histbookchat

Yesterday’s second hand haul: those quarrelsome French are attacking the nation of shopkeepers at sea! A 1989 book on French privateering. 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🌊 📚 #histbookchat

Work laptop switched off. Now it’s time to read about Midshipmen while drinking from the cask! #readingndrinking #histbookchat

Eating in an excellent Chinese restaurant near Baker Street this evening. Clearly a favourite with the last 25 years of Labour ministers, but they may need to update their Wall of Fame before we work out who else Mandy might have been selling secrets to!!!

In order to converse with @geraint.bsky.social I have been forced to purchase William James’ Naval Occurrences of the War of 1812! 🤣 📚 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 #histbookchat

In order to converse with @geraint.bsky.social I have been forced to purchase William James’ Naval Occurrences of the War of 1812! 🤣 📚 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 #histbookchat

Home from holidays to the most niche of niche 18th century history! 🇬🇧 🇮🇹 📚 #histbookchat

Home from holidays to the most niche of niche 18th century history! 🇬🇧 🇮🇹 📚 #histbookchat

Right! As I’m still technically on holiday, albeit at home, I intend to relax with a book about Evangelical Anglicans in the Royal Navy and wonderful beer made by Trappist monks. A perfection born of contrasts tonight! #readingndrinking #histbookchat

What do I do on holiday? The same thing I do at home! Go to book shops and try new beverages… 📚 🍻 🇮🇸 #readingndrinking

In the Land of Fire and Ice 🔥 🧊 🇮🇸

As it was on offer @boydellbrewer and I’m on a Royal Navy reading binge and a Seven Years War book buying binge, I grabbed this excellent crossover tome. 📚 🏆 #histbookchat

As it was on offer @boydellbrewer and I’m on a Royal Navy reading binge and a Seven Years War book buying binge, I grabbed this excellent crossover tome. 📚 🏆 #histbookchat

Look forward to February! Here is a list of new #non_fiction #books about the #18thcentury scheduled for next month: regency-explorer.net/new-releases/ #Regency #Napoleon #history #Bronte #Waterloo #JaneAusten #18thc

Always great to find one of these excellent collections of essays in a charity or secondhand book shops at very reasonable (not university press) prices! Delighted to have spotted this one 📚 #histbookchat

Always great to find one of these excellent collections of essays in a charity or secondhand book shops at very reasonable (not university press) prices! Delighted to have spotted this one 📚 #histbookchat

Speaking of picking up books to get accurate uniforms for #masterofcommand, I found another Stephen Summerfield book on the Austrian army of the Seven Years War. #histbookchat

Speaking of picking up books to get accurate uniforms for #masterofcommand, I found another Stephen Summerfield book on the Austrian army of the Seven Years War. #histbookchat

Don’t kid yourself that politics now is ‘dirtier’, ‘more corrupt’, or more ‘lowbrow’ than it used to be. The Jackson v Adams campaign was as vicious as campaigns come. Yesterday’s haul covers another key presidential campaign 🗳️ 🇺🇸 📚 #histbookchat

Don’t kid yourself that politics now is ‘dirtier’, ‘more corrupt’, or more ‘lowbrow’ than it used to be. The Jackson v Adams campaign was as vicious as campaigns come. Yesterday’s haul covers another key presidential campaign 🗳️ 🇺🇸 📚 #histbookchat

Another Helion books’ ‘Reason to Revolution’ landed yesterday. There’s really no excuse not to have period accurate regiments and colours when playing #masterofcommand now! 📚 #histbookchat

Another Helion books’ ‘Reason to Revolution’ landed yesterday. There’s really no excuse not to have period accurate regiments and colours when playing #masterofcommand now! 📚 #histbookchat

Having been drawn into “Death By Lightening” both She Who Must Be Obeyed and I want to know more. Also Chester A. Arthur’s family in from my hometown in Ballymena but I’d little idea who he was. So yesterday’s haul was a bio of Garfield 🗳️ 🇺🇸 📚 #histbookchat

Having been drawn into “Death By Lightening” both She Who Must Be Obeyed and I want to know more. Also Chester A. Arthur’s family in from my hometown in Ballymena but I’d little idea who he was. So yesterday’s haul was a bio of Garfield 🗳️ 🇺🇸 📚 #histbookchat