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James Hoare

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Newcastle upon Tyne
As seen in: Medium, Daily Express, SussexWorld, History Today, SciFiNow, All About History, The Companion, Torbay Weekly, Anchor.fm
Covers:  science fiction, horror, roleplaying games, military history, social history
Tusken Master of Teräs Käsi. @WTrinityRL exile. Adopted Geordie. Writer. He/Him.

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James Hoare is a freelance writer and editor with a taste for war, witchcraft and weirdness. He is based in the North East of England and is always looking for new and exciting projects.

Seeped in history and myth from birth, James grew up in windswept rural North Lincolnshire on the site of a Medieval priory, hearing tall tales of ghostly bell ringers and secret tunnels. A mile from the nearest town, his best friends were Bad Religion, Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends, 2000 AD, Fighting Fantasy,…

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Try Again: An Early History of Tyneside Rugby League

Try Again: An Early History of Tyneside Rugby League

The late 19th century on Tyneside saw the emergence of ball sports as the predominant pastime, leaving rowing…

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Paul Butterworth on the VFX of Farscape Season 1

Paul Butterworth on the VFX of Farscape Season 1

Farscape Season 1 VFX supervisor Paul Butterworth on the creation of Moya, beating Star Wars at their own gam…

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Mothership | Inside the Million Dollar Sci-Fi Horror RPG

Mothership | Inside the Million Dollar Sci-Fi Horror RPG

Sean McCoy and others explain how indie RPG Mothership and its creative community went from scraps of graph p…

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Stargate | Heather E. Ash on Finding Her 'Foothold' in the SG-1 Writers Room

Stargate | Heather E. Ash on Finding Her 'Foothold' in the SG-1 Writers Room

Stargate SG-1 writer and Season 3 story editor Heather E. Ash on the making of 'Foothold' and why SG-1 was ri…

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Battle Scores: The Making of Farscape's Soundtrack

Battle Scores: The Making of Farscape's Soundtrack

Farscape composers Chris Neal and Guy Gross on the behind-the-scenes upsets that sent the show's score into U…

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Stargate | How Wyvern's SG-1 RPG Dragged D&D Through the Gate

Stargate | How Wyvern's SG-1 RPG Dragged D&D Through the Gate

Wyvern Gaming's Brad Ellis explains how the Stargate SG-1 Roleplaying Game found a space alongside the TV can…

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Books of the Year 2025: Part 2

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By James Hoare
| History Today
African queens and Anglo-Saxon towns, Indira Gandhi and Irish STEM, Celtic Studies and the caste system: 10 more historians choose their favourite new history books of 2025. If you haven’t yet read the History Today Books of the Year Part 1, you can find it here.
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Books of the Year 2025: Part 1

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By James Hoare
| History Today
‘This is much more than the history of a place’ Erik Linstrum is Professor of History at the University of Virginia Sam Wetherell’s Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain (Head of Zeus) is a mesmerising panorama of the postwar, postimperial, postindustrial city as a vision of the British future. Forget about ‘decline’, Wetherell argues, with its nostalgic tinge and neglect of inequality; Liverpool is a case study in ‘obsolescence’.
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