David Thorpe lives in the Dyfi Valley, mid-Wales and has been the News Editor of Energy an Environmental Management magazine for ten years, prior to that being Managing Editor and author at the Centre for Alterative Technology, where he edited The Whole House Book among many other titles. He writes a popular blog - The Low Carbon Kid - and for the Guardian online.
One of the most turbulent reigns in history paved the way for the first modern revolution. After the Tudors came the Stuarts... August 25, 1689 The English Army is besieging Carrickfergus in Ireland. Brilliant but unusual gunner Holcroft Blood of ...[SEE MORE]