On getting history very slightly wrong (then winning a prize)

[image error]History, fiction or what?

As most of you will know, when writing in In the Bink of an Eye I was careful – (some might say too careful, to those who spotted the odd gaffe not careful enough!) – to stick to ‘the facts as we know them.’ And if anyone would like a  summary of the story I have retold, the bare bones of it were laid out here  long before the book was written.  By the way, that post (written in 2012!)  is a classic case of telling the story too soon and was part of the reason for a lengthy strug...