Andrew Simpson

Now I have never lost my love of the children’s history books I read back in the 1950s.* The cooling earth And so I have returned wi...

I never tire of reading children’s history books. Apart from the fact that most are beautifully illustrated and have a simple crisp tex...

Now here is one of those children’s books from the 1950s which has become a history book. I doubt that Jean and David Gadsby who wrote ...

I have never lost my fascination for Rome. I have friends who long ago fell in love with Venice, others who keep going back to Floren...

The cover I never tire of reading children’s history books. Apart from the fact that most are beautifully illustrated and have a simp...

I am not a fan of that new generation of history books aimed at young people. True they are colourful, offer high quality photographs, ...

I don’t remember coming across Travel by Sea as a child, which is a shame because it would have certainly powered my imagination. It is...

I never think you can get enough of the history books written by R.J. Unstead in the 1950s.* This one comes from Black’s Junior Referen...

Of all my favourite children’s history books those written by Robert John Unstead are the ones I most frequently return to . He was a p...

Now here is another of those books whose contents has passed into history. The Eagle Book of Police and Detection , was published in 19...

Now the thing about reading history books produced in other countries is they can offer a different slant on events you are familiar with...

I don’t think you can better the introduction by R.J.Unstead to his book Looking at History as a statement for what a children’s account...

I am back with another of those history books written for children in the 1950s. Many of the ones I was given at the time have su...

Now I am on a roll and have begun searching for the history books I read as a child. Not that this is just a voyage into nostalgia alth...

I never tire of looking through A Picture History of France by Clarke Hutton. It is another in the series which was published in the 19...

This is another of my favourites and well worth a look at. In just over 100 pages R J Unstead presented the young reader of the late 19...

I first came across A Picture History of Britain, by Clarke Hutton on a wet winter’s day sometime in the 1950s.  It had been published ...

Dubnonum circa 250AD I have been thinking about what started my long love affair with history and in particular the Romans. It began ...

I have been re posting* some old stories of a book from my childhood in the hope that the O.U.P. might republish it. It is Edward O...

 I have decided to revisit an old favourite which I first posted last year * and which deserves to be seen again.  I only hope that th...