An Aspects of History Omnibus

'I feel honoured to be in the first issue of a great new project.' Ben Macintyre


'A great new resource… Indispensable for historians and history lovers alike.' Saul David




Aspects of History is the new magazine and website dedicated to history and historical fiction.


We believe that history should be a source of argument and entertainment. Different voices have different stories to tell.


Each issue contains articles, interviews, short stories and book reviews by established and emerging writers.


The past isn't dead, it's not even past. History relates and resonates.


At the same time, the past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.




Issue One


Featuring Following - And More…


Who Was Agent Sonya? Roger Moorhouse interviews Ben Macintyre.


Peace on Earth: The Christmas Truce of 1914. By David Boyle.


MI9 and the Cockleshell Heroes. By Helen Fry.


Getting to the Heart of the Matter. Richard Foreman interviews Richard Greene.


Historical Heroes. Saul Daul David on George Macdonald Fraser.


The Fall of the Knights Templar: The Siege of Acre, 1291. By Roger Crowley.


The Sum of Me. A Short Story, by EC Fremantle.




Issue Two


Featuring Following - And More…


Britain In and Out of Europe: Saul David Interviews Renowned Historian Professor Robert Tombs.


Voices of History: How to Talk Your Way to Power, by Simon Sebag Montefiore.


Historical Heroes: Mary Renault, by Antonia Senior.


Good Communists: Spying in the 1930s, by Michael Ridpath.


The Lion in Winter: J.A.Ironside interviews bestselling novelist Ben Kane about his new series, set during the reign of Richard the Lionheart.


Short Story: A Knight’s Tale, by Richard Foreman.


Cupid’s Couple: Heloise and Abelard, by James Burge.


The Last Assassin and the Ides of March, by Peter Stothard.


Origins of a Legend: Robin Hood and the Disinherited, by David Pilling.


The Story Behind the Queen’s Rival. By Anne O’Brien.


The Last Bastion of Europe. By Theodore Brun.




Issue Three


Featuring Following - And More…


Okinawa, The Bomb and the ‘Real’ End of World War II, By Saul David.


Historical Heroes: Dante’s Revenge, by Paul Strathern.


Short Story: Guile by J.A. Ironside.


The Queen’s Rival: Anne O’Brien, Interviewed by Amy McElroy.


Short Story: Lantern and the Light, by Steven Veerapen.




Recommended reading for fans of The Spectator, History Today and BBC History Magazine.