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Historia Live! Bad Reputations

Fortune-tellers, Fraudsters & Fallen Women With Laura Shepherd-Robinson, Stacey Halls and Beezy Marsh in conversation with A J West 16 April at The Wheatsheaf in central London Book your tickets...  more

HWA / Dorothy Dunnett Society Short Story Award 2024

We are delighted to announce the 2024 HWA/DDS Short Story Award is open for entries. The deadline for submissions is 1 July and the entry fee remains only £5. Visit the award page to read the terms and conditions and enter. Best of...  more

HWA Crowns 2024

Submissions are now open! SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN. Go the HWA Crown Awards 2024 page to submit titles for the Debut, Gold and Non-Fiction Crowns for 2024. You can see the fantastic titles which won in 2023 on...  more

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Historical Writers Association member - Naomi Clifford
On the Wings of Love: Georgian Elopement Stories by HWA member Naomi Clifford

Naomi Clifford

Naomi Clifford writes the non-fiction histories of forgotten women. Her historical crime novel 13 Park Lane will be published by Bloodhound Books on 28 October 2024. On the Wings of Love: Georgian Elopement Stories (2023) Out of the Shadows: Essays on 18th and 19th Century Women (2022) Under Fire: The Blitz Diaries of a Volunteer Ambulance Driver (2021) The Murder of Mary Ashford: The Crime That Changed English Legal History...  more
Historical Writers Association member - Florence Olajide
The Stolen Daughter by HWA member Florence Olajide

Florence Olajide

Florence Olajide was born in London to Nigerian parents. She spent the first six years of her life privately fostered by a white family before moving to Nigeria with her birth family. As an adult, she moved with her own family back to London, where she continued her career in teaching, becoming first, the headteacher of an inner London primary school and later, one of Her Majesty’s Inspectors of Schools. Florence’s memoir, Coconut...  more
Historical Writers Association member - Tayo Agunbiade
Untold Histories of Nigerian Women: by HWA member Tayo Agunbiade

Tayo Agunbiade

Tayo Agunbiade is a social historian and non-fiction author with a 35-year + background in journalism. Her research specialises in women’s history in former British West African colonies including the Two World Wars. Her findings that translated into articles published on www.premiumtimes.ng and www.aljazeera.com. Her research interests also include legislative institutions, politics and governance with a special focus on gender analysis. She...  more
Historical Writers Association member - Jennifer Orth-Veillon
Beyond Their Limits of Longing by HWA member Jennifer Orth-Veillon

Jennifer Orth-Veillon

Jennifer Orth-Veillon is a Franco-American writer, educator, and translator based in Metz, France. Her work has appeared in Engelsberg Ideas, The New York Times, The War Horse, Esprit, Consequence Magazine, The Wrath-Bearing Tree, Les Cahiers du Judaïsme, and Lunch Ticket.   A specialist in the literature of war, she edited Beyond Their Limits of Longing: Contemporary Writers and Veterans on the Lingering Stories of WWI, published by MilSpeak...  more
Historical Writers Association member - Karen Maitland
A Plague of Serpents by HWA member Karen Maitland

Karen Maitland

Writing as K J Maitland, Karen Maitland's new Jacobean crime thriller quartet is set in the aftermarth of the failed Gunpwder plot and follows Daniel Pursglove as he becomes embroiled in the dark world of spies, murder and treason. The first novel, The Drowned City, takes place amid the devastation of the Bristol tsumani of 1606. And the second, Traitor in the Ice, is set in 1607 in Battle Abbey, Sussex. The third, Rivers of Treason, in which...  more

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