The availability of blogging software, and a multitude of sites devoted to online publishing, makes it very easy for anyone to publish their writing on the internet. But it can take a long time to build up a readership. The early days of seeing just a few views for a piece of work that [...]
In the modern world, our lives are controlled by the clock to higher levels of precision than ever before. But how many of us stop to think why we divide time into such peculiar units? Why are there 60 minutes in an hour and 24 hours in a day?
In this article, from earlier [...]
Paul Revere by J S Copley 1768
Let me introduce you to another of my previously published articles. This is another biography but this time of an American, the silversmith Paul Revere. It was written and published in November of last year and describes his life and career between 1735 and 1818.
Paul Revere [...]
Christopher Wren by Godfrey Kneller 1711
I promised in my welcome post to introduce a few of the articles that I have already had published, so here is the first. Written in October of last year to commemorate the birth of Christopher Wren, this biography charts his family and professional life between 1632 and [...]
Hello and welcome to my little corner of the world wide web. I’m Gary Wallace, a freelance writer based in the United Kingdom. My interests are many and varied, and this is reflected in my choice of writing subjects, but I have a passion for history so you will see a bias towards historical [...]
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