Tom Williams

Another photo from last weekend, in case you need more reasons to check my Halloween post. And there's a free novella to pick up while you're there.
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Halloween And a treat for you all

An early post this week so you all have time to get a special Treat from me on Halloween (tomorrow).
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This week's Substack will be slightly earlier than usual so that it's in good time to celebrate Halloween with a spooky treat. Here are some pictures from my early Halloween celebrations last weekend as a teaser.

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Great precautions were taken to protect against fire in munitions stores, especially on board ship, but as gunpowder is being moved to and from the stores, accidents will happen. I'm surprised nobody blamed French agents, who were said to be targeting naval ports.

Dark Magic Amazon.com: Dark Magic eBook : Williams, Tom: Kindle Store

With Halloween coming up on Friday, it's time to remind you that when I'm not writing historical fiction, I dabble in fantasy. 'Dark Magic' is a novella about hilariously terrifying stage trickery. You could die laughing!
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Goodbye to my website and hello to the latest Sharpe novel Changes afoot in the way I write and sell my books but reassuring continuity in the world of Richard Sharpe.

I’ve closed down my website. It was a more emotionally challenging decision than I expected, but I’m happier now I’ve made it. When I wrote about it for this week’s Substack, I was surprised how positive I felt.
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If you've been meaning to visit Marble Hill House (in Twickenham) this year, you need to get a move on. The house is open free from Wednesday to Sunday this week from 10.00 to 4.00 and after that it closes for the winter.

Goodbye to my website and hello to the latest Sharpe novel Changes afoot in the way I write and sell my books but reassuring continuity in the world of Richard Sharpe.

I’ve closed down my website. It was a more emotionally challenging decision than I expected, but I’m happier now I’ve made it. When I wrote about it for this week’s Substack, I was surprised how positive I felt.
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A Quiet(ish) Week in London Town Napoleonic soldiers, a stand-up comic and a vampire in a Jacobean manor house

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Guest post – Two Georgian childhoods: Eleanor Carne, the sitter, and Thomas Lawrence, the artist I am always delighted to welcome back to All Things Georgian, Jim Symington, and today he's going to tell us more about one of my favourite artists, Thomas Lawrence. Like me, Jim has a keen interest not just in art, but in the back story behind the works themselves. In 2030 there will be commemorations for the two hundredth anniversary of the passing of Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769 – 1830). He was one of our nation’s outstanding portrait painters.  Lawrence was the President of the Royal Academy of Arts from 1820 until he died, unexpectedly, in his sixtieth year.

Guest post – Two Georgian childhoods: Eleanor Carne, the sitter, and Thomas Lawrence, the artist

I am always delighted to welcome back to All Things Georgian, Jim Symington, and today he's going to tell us more about one of my favourite artists, Thomas Lawrence. Like me, Jim has a keen interest…

A Quiet(ish) Week in London Town Napoleonic soldiers, a stand-up comic and a vampire in a Jacobean manor house

As my website enters its final days, you'll need to go to Substack to find my blog posts. (There's a handy button on each post you can click and get future posts e-mailed to you for free.)
Here's the link for this week: tomcw99.substack.com/p/a-quietish...

This is what you will see if you visit my website (but only if you're quick). If you want to keep in touch in the future, you'll need to go to my Substack: substack.com/@tomwilliams...

The 'Negro Fort' A coda to the War of 1812 plus a book review and more pretty pictures

On my Substack this week: an extraordinary backwater of history that could make a great novel, a review of a legal thriller, and more photos of Paris that reflect the things I write about here.
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The rose garden at Hyde Park still thinks it's summer. Really lovely there today.

THIS SATURDAY, Matt Taylor, Graeme Callister and Michael Rayner will be at Apsley House, talking about “The Black Soldiers of Waterloo". Apsley House was the home of the Duke of Wellington and is worth seeing even without the talks, which start at noon.
Apsley House is at Hyde Park Corner.

There is only today and tomorrow left to get your free copy of 'Tales of Empire': four short stories by historical novelists you may never have heard of but whose take on the 19th century may challenge some of your ideas about the time of Empire.
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Four writers, four short stories from the 19th century. A FREE introduction to some #HistoricalFiction authors you may not have met yet.
Free until Saturday. 'Buy' (free) at mybook.to/TalesofEmpire

'Tales of Empire' is a book of four stories set in the 19th century, one of them by me. It's a fun way to meet four different historical authors and for the rest of this week it's free.
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'Buy' link: mybook.to/TalesofEmpire

Chinaware, Delftware and other ceramics and some holiday photos...

Last week’s post about tea introduced the whole subject of pottery and Henrietta Howard’s love of chinaware. This week I take a closer look at 18th century porcelain and ask why Chinaware was just better than the stuff we made in Europe.
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Guest post by Judy Pearson – How Mount Vernon, Virginia got its Name It is always a pleasure to welcome back to All Things Georgian my next guest, Dr Judith Pearson, who has written several guest pieces on here which you can read using the highlighed link above. Readers of All Things Georgian probably know that George Washington (1732 – 1799) was Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army during the American War for Independence and the first president of the United States from 1789 - 1797. He lived and died on his plantation, Mount Vernon, Virginia, which is now a northern Virginia landmark and popular historic tourist attraction.

Guest post by Judy Pearson – How Mount Vernon, Virginia got its Name

It is always a pleasure to welcome back to All Things Georgian my next guest, Dr Judith Pearson, who has written several guest pieces on here which you can read using the highlighed link above. Readers of All Things Georgian…

Everything stops for tea And, if it doesn't, it should.

On my Substack this week, taking tea with the Georgians and a review of the rather wonderful 'The Art of a Lie'.
(There's a shorter version of this on my blog.)
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Blog (just the tea bit): tomwilliamsauthor.co.uk/everything-s...

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Tango last night, tango tonight and, weather permitting, tango tomorrow.
Life is good.

It's been almost six months since I wrote this and I'd pretty well forgotten about it, so I thought I'd remind everybody. historiamag.com/war-1812-rel...

WHAT’S IN A NAME? And might there be more important things to worry about?

I’ve recently been writing about conflicts in North America in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It’s easy to get offended about the language used talking about the people involved, but maybe this is one way of avoiding some more serious issues.
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Hello! Let me (belatedly) introduce myself. As I seem to mention almost every week, I'm still finding my way on Substack.

Introducing myself on Substack: what I write and why I write it. Plus things you notice when the tubes are on strike.
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This marigold refused to do anything all summer but has brought a splash of colour to our garden now it's September!

Finally got around to V&A East. Basically, a warehouse full of treasures in more-or-less random order, which you wander around exploring the way I remember going round museums as a kid. Refreshingly retro but do take a smartphone for info as most has no print labels. Recommended.

A North American scrap: War on the Inland Sea by Thomas Briggs - Historical Novel Society BY TOM WILLIAMS North American history seems to be peppered with wars that everyone has forgotten. At the beginning of the year, few people outside of Canada had heard of the War of 1812. Then Donald ...

I'm on the Historical Novel Society's website this week with a piece about the French & Indian Wars, based on Thomas Briggs' book, 'War on the Inland Sea'.
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