Welcome to Escape Into History. And who wouldn’t want to, considering our pace of life? Be it short or medium length, there will be a story here to ease a restless mind or spark an active imagination. History in the landscape has played a part in my life since schooldays…

Fiction writer, history lover, map junkie — Hi! I’m Linda Acaster and thanks for stopping by my Profile. We are all busy so I’ll keep this short. I’m a Brit from the English county of Yorkshire, situated halfway up the country. My close family currently lives a short walk from the chilly North Sea, which has proven…

September Six Word Photo Story Challenge: “Shadows” — “Yellow, lift your head.” “I can’t!” Growing in the shadow of a dark fence and over-bearing trees is no joke for sunflowers. The clue is in the name: they need the sunshine, especially this far north in England. In our garden, we grow ours for the colour and — if we’re lucky — seed heads to…

The care of a farmer changes not a jot down the centuries — One Pope’s over-enthusiasm for the protection of Christian shrines caused the raising of the Knights Templar military-religious order. Another Pope’s timidity caused its bloody demise. In the intervening 193 years the “Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and the Temple of Solomon” revitalised production of food and ancillaries across much of Europe…

Welcome to the Escape Into History Newsletter #2. August was a consolidation month for Escape Into History, and nine stories are now showcased under three fairly arbitrary time periods. These will be split as stories crowd in. I’m all about ease of finding what you want to read. …

What was I thinking?!? — Ever since joining Medium and following Zulie Rane’s how-to YouTube videos, I’ve considered owning a personal publication. Yet I’m not a prolific writer, and for it to work the publication would need a theme. Mmm. Better, I thought, to bide my time and increase my skills set. It was with…

How to burnish one’s status in gilded iron. — Oakham, a market town in the English county of Rutland, boasts a well-preserved Great Hall within its dilapidated castle walls, and an amazing collection of oversized horseshoes, some gilded and bearing coronets. After the successful conquest of England by the Norman-French in 1066, the existing manorial lands were redistributed to…

Who wants to waste time searching? — My publication Escape Into History has finally risen into the light and I’m inaugurating a monthly Newsletter. Why subscribe? What’s in it for you? Time. Yours. Everyone is busy. …

Hello, and thanks for looking in. This inaugural newsletter will give a taste of what to expect upon subscribing. The newsletter, sent monthly, will begin with a bit of chat — rather like this and just as short — and give a list of stories published since the previous newsletter…