My Substack post this week is mainly about Napoleon and his strike north to Charleroi, the beginning of a short campaign that was to end at Waterloo.
Next week I’ll be looking at what happened after Charleroi.
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An unusually positive story from the Georgian prison system and one with a happy ending.
I’m working on a new Galbraith & Pole story. It seems a good time to chat about the strange world of Contemporary Urban Fantasy, or at least my tiny corner of it.
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I’m working on a contemporary urban fantasy, featuring a modern version of the Hell-Fire Club. I've taken a look at the history, so my Substack this week is 18th century sexual perversion and politics, neatly tied to adventures now on a Caribbean island.
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More Georgian fashion, thanks to Ackermann's excellent 'Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics'.
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My Substack post this week is a day early. There’s a reason for that.
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Intensive aerial bombardment of areas with significant civilian populations is morally unacceptable. This should not need saying, but apparently it does.
It’s a short post on Substack this week. I write about Canterbury Cathedral and an unexpected link to Gibraltar and about thoughts on a possible new Galbraith & Pole book.
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My latest Substack is reviews. There are a couple of non-fiction and some lighter reading plus, for those who didn’t see it earlier, a link to my review of the new musical, ‘Midnight’. tomcw99.substack.com/p/lately-ive...
At the weekend, I went to see ‘Midnight’, a new musical at Sadler’s Wells East. My beloved and I were very impressed, so we talked about it this morning and recorded the conversation as a podcast. You can hear it here: tomcw99.substack.com/p/midnight
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After two long posts on late 18th century siege warfare (OK, really just going on about a holiday in Gibraltar) a very lightweight piece about cacti (with just a tiny bit about Gibraltar).
Enjoy!
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The Great Siege of Gibraltar (1779 - 1783) had consequences that reached far beyond the 18th century. Developments in artillery led to changes in the way big guns are used even today.
More historical musings from my holiday in this week’s post.
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It's lovely to see a link between someone I know on BlueSky and the events I've just written about on Substack.
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Thank you for this. It's fascinating stuff!
Gibraltar: history, fortifications, big guns, and monkeys. What's not to love?
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Not the first time I've seen details of servants' wages but always useful because, without information like this, it's almost impossible to make sense of prices in the past.
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My latest Substack post is up. It’s another straightforward historical one which, despite what you might think, isn’t about Greenland at all. It’s about Britain’s smash-and-grab in Argentina in 1806.
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I’m delighted to have been told that one of my Substack book reviews might even have boosted a book. If I can persuade more of you to read it, might anyone else buy the books?
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An absolutely fascinating account of how America almost went metric and then didn't and how politics and war can wreck scientific endeavour. Yet again, I feel that today we are reliving the Georgian era.
Book reviews on my Substack this week where I'm recommending a memoir and a Roman detective story.
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This week, I am writing about the link between tango and the Congress of Vienna. So nine days into 2026 and we have already reached peak ‘Tom’s Substack’.
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Happy New Year!
After the excesses of Christmas, writing about the excesses of the Congress of Vienna seems appropriate. Start the new year with something Napoleonic and vaguely educational. tomcw99.substack.com/p/partying-a...
There is a free Christmas story on my Substack this week, featuring my favourite vampire, Chief Inspector Pole, and a remarkable absence of corpses.
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My Substack is back to the Napoleonic Wars because that's what people like to read. This week: the Congress of Vienna.
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The Historical Novel Society has just posted a piece I wrote about Bernard Cornwell’s latest, ‘Sharpe’s Storm’. It’s not a review but a quick look at the background to the book with some insight from Cornwell about how he sees his best-known character.
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A wormhole in time has given us a video conclusively proving that tango originated not in Argentina but in Regency England!
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Who was Sir James Mansfield?
James Mansfield was born on 10 May 1734 to a Hampshire attorney, John James Mansfield (1700-1762) and his wife, Elizabeth (née Fezard) (1700-1740). John James had, apparently, at some stage, changed his surname from Manfield to Mansfield. James and Elizabeth were the…
A fun few days. Dancing tango on Thursday and Regency dancing on Friday (in the Duke of Wellington’s house, no less). Street skating round London on Sunday but now back to reality on a damp, grey Monday morning.
This week's Substack post.
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