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02/10/2026

"You are the presentation. Not your slides."

We've all been there. Someone puts up a PowerPoint presentation and proceeds to read every word aloud.

As Stuart Leasor observes, we can read!

In this extract from 'Chiselbury Conversations', author and communications trainer Lizzie Butler explains why slides should enhance a presentation, not become a substitute for actually engaging with your audience.

Lizzie is the author of 'It’s Never Only Business! Using Communication to Get What You Need', published on 5 October by Chiselbury Publishing.

Watch the full conversation on the Chiselbury YouTube channel.

124 kilometres. 39 hours. A march into history.In 1944, exhausted soldiers marched through the hills of north-east India...
01/10/2026

124 kilometres. 39 hours. A march into history.
In 1944, exhausted soldiers marched through the hills of north-east India to reach Kohima before Japanese forces encircled it.
Eighty years later, Charlotte Carty retraced her grandfather’s footsteps, walking the same route to uncover the story of the men who made that extraordinary journey.
39 Hours: The March That Saved India brings together wartime history, family discovery and Charlotte’s own demanding walk through the landscape where it happened.
Out now from Chiselbury. Order through the link in our bio or your local bookshop.

Your Chiselbury book could win you Christmas ch*****ne 🥂Post an original photo featuring any Chiselbury book, tag and i...
30/09/2026

Your Chiselbury book could win you Christmas ch*****ne 🥂

Post an original photo featuring any Chiselbury book, tag and include . A borrowed book is fine. Make sure your post is public so we can see it.

Enter as many times as you like with different original photos. A judging panel, including an independent judge, will choose the most creative photo. The prize is the bottle of Taittinger Brut Réserve shown here.

Open to UK residents aged 18 or over. No purchase necessary. Entries close at 11:59 pm UK time on 30 November 2026.

Full rules via the link in our bio. This competition is run by Chiselbury and is not associated with Instagram.

29/09/2026

He was recommended for the Victoria Cross by his CO. He received no award.

In 1944, a young officer commanding A Company of the Assam Regiment gave his life at Kharasom. Charlotte Carty explains why her grandfather believed his actions may have helped save Jessami and Kohima, and how his story was finally recognised years later with a blue plaque in Glasgow.

Watch the full conversation on Chiselbury’s YouTube channel. Charlotte’s book is 39 Hours: The March That Saved India.

28/09/2026

We’re taught how to talk. But are we ever really taught how to listen?
For author and communications trainer Lizzie Butler, learning how to really listen changed the way she communicated.
Her school reports told her she needed to stop talking. A former manager put it even more simply: “Two ears. One mouth.”
But listening, Lizzie argues, isn’t simply keeping quiet while somebody else speaks. It means observing, noticing feedback and paying attention to what the other person is actually communicating.
In this extract from our latest Chiselbury Conversation, Lizzie explains why listening may be the most important communication skill of all.
📖 It’s Never Only Business! Using Communication to Get What You Need by Lizzie Butler, published by Chiselbury Publishing.
Full conversation on the Chiselbury YouTube channel.

27/09/2026

On this day, 27 September 1918, my cousin Gordon Thomas Gurney was killed on the first day of the Battle of the Canal du Nord.

He was a lance corporal in the 15th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. A couple of years ago, I visited his grave and stood on the ground where he was killed. This short film was made during that visit.

Today I am remembering Gordon by name, 108 years after his death. He was killed just over six weeks before the Armistice ended the fighting in the war that was supposed to end all wars.

S*x, school and survival in the years of the Troubles.Sand in Strange Places by Richard Grainger is OUT NOW.Growing up i...
27/09/2026

S*x, school and survival in the years of the Troubles.

Sand in Strange Places by Richard Grainger is OUT NOW.

Growing up in Northern Ireland in the late 1960s and 70s, Richard found himself navigating the Troubles, boarding school, family expectations, s*x, violence and an increasingly desperate determination to escape.

It is a brutally frank memoir, but also a very funny one, recalling an extraordinary journey through childhood and adolescence with little held back.

“A blistering memoir: poignant, sobering and hilarious.”
David Roy, author

“It’s a crackin’ read.”
Cecil Lowry, writer and historian

Published by Chiselbury. Available from Chiselbury.co.uk, Amazon and all good bookshops.

26/09/2026

They had never been in battle before.

Surrounded in the hills, the young soldiers of the Assam Regiment fought for five days. Then came an extraordinary march through some of the most difficult terrain in India towards the besieged town of Kohima.

Charlotte Carty, author of 39 Hours: The March That Saved India and granddaughter of Lt Col “Bruno” Brown, tells the remarkable story of the regiment’s first battle.

Watch the full Chiselbury Conversations interview on YouTube.

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25/09/2026

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