By Rebecca Reed, CRM Executive. With many celebrating Bonfire Night over the past weekend, we thought we would take a look back into the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, it was a failed assassination attempt against King James I of England and VI of Scotland by a group of English Catholics led by Robert Catesby. These […]
Category: Bookishness
Banned Books.
By Les Phipps Throughout history, there have always been books that have been banned for various reasons, whether this is political, racism, bigotry, sex, homophobia, religion, there are hundreds of reasons why even down to the cover, not the content. Books have been banned, some quite correctly and some for more dubious and sinister reasons […]
Do you know your Sci-fi terms?
The world of science fiction has brought us some of the most famous and best-loved works of fiction. From H G Wells to George Lucas and everything in between, there are so many science fiction terms out there that it can be easy to feel like you are Lost in Space. So here is the […]