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A Dutch Miscellany

My most recent proofreading projects for Pen & Sword Books have been on a wide variety of subjects. These have included manuscripts about the Cold War-era space race, lost London pubs and British truck drivers working in the former Soviet Union. My latest such project was entitled ‘The Art Lover’s Guide to Amsterdam’ and was […]

All Points East

My latest completed proofread for Pen & Sword Books was on another subject somewhat different from my usual ‘beat’, the title in question being ‘A History of Kepstowe Freight’. The company in question was a British one that specialised in sending large loads by lorry into the former Soviet Union, the time period being from […]

A Pub Crawl On Paper

My latest completed proofread for Pen & Sword Books was something very different from my usual subject matter – the topic in question being London’s Lost Pubs. Written by Sam Cullen, the manuscript was an overview of a cross-section of public houses closed for different reasons since the start of this century. The locations in which these […]

Something very different

Today I completed my latest proofread for Pen & Sword Books, this being a manuscript entitled Manned and Unmanned Flights to the Moon. Written by author Terry C. Treadwell, the story was an overview of what was known as the ‘Space Race’, happening from the mid-1950s onwards between America and Russia. I found this a most interesting […]

A little-known Welsh railway

One of my more recent proofreading projects that I undertook for Pen & Sword Books was a manuscript on the subject of the Shropshire & Montgomeryshire Light Railway. I have now completed a second, similar project, this time about a neighbour of the above-mentioned company, the Tanat Valley Light Railway. The latter work was written […]

An often overlooked railway subject

My latest completed proofreading project for Pen & Sword Books was a manuscript entitled ‘The Early Days of Railway Tunnels’. Written by Hubert Pragnell, the story was an overview of the history of a cross-section of the earliest and most famous railway tunnels completed in Britain up to 1870. It was a non-technical overview of […]

An Unusual Subject

My latest completed proofreading project for Pen & Sword Books was one of those ‘one-off’ projects that I get sent every now and again, this one entitled Mallory, Irvine and Everest. I would imagine that most people will be aware that the first successful climb of Mount Everest was in 1953. However, this manuscript was  something of […]

A Mixed Career

My latest completed proofreading project for Pen & Sword Books was a picture book entitled The London DM and DMS Buses. Drawing on the vast photographic collection of the book’s author, Mr Jim Blake, the manuscript looked at the short and troublesome life of the DM and DMS group of buses. By a Government directive, London Transport […]

An Unsuccessful Class of Diesel Locomotive

My most recent completed proofreading project for Pen & Sword Books was another in their series of ‘Locomotive Portfolios’, the locomotive class in question being the Class 22 diesel-hydraulic engines built by North British for the Western Region (WR) of British Railways (BR). The author was Anthony Sayer; I have previously worked on a couple […]

The later years of the Great Eastern Railway

My latest completed proofreading project for Pen & Sword Books was the second part of a comprehensive history of the one of the most famous of the pre-1923 British railway companies, the Great Eastern Railway (GER). During 2022, I worked on the first part of this history, both of which were written by Charles Phillips. […]