The Massacre of St Bartholomew’s Eve by John Lucarotti or Donald Tosh (1965)

In some respects, ‘The Massacre’ is Schrodinger’s Historical. A story that exists in three potential states, none of which quite allow us a glimpse of what it was really like. It is opaque, we view it through a haze or via our own chosen lens. To switch to a religious metaphor – we have theContinue reading “The Massacre of St Bartholomew’s Eve by John Lucarotti or Donald Tosh (1965)”

The Savages by Ian Stuart Black (1966)

‘I don’t intend to leave these people in this oppressed state’ ‘Oppose you? Indeed I am going to oppose you, just in the same way that I oppose theDaleks or any other menace to common humanity’ The Doctor has come a long way since ‘An Unearthly Child’, his travels have been followed and celebrated byContinue reading “The Savages by Ian Stuart Black (1966)”