As a historical novelist, I’m fascinated by the gaps in history, the silenced stories, the holes that riddle our past.…
Although Henry VIII is famous for abandoning, beheading and divorcing his wives it seems he didn’t enjoy ‘goodbyes.’ Each of…
Guest Post by Brook Allen Since returning from a phenomenal weekend at the Historical Novel Society’s bi-annual conference, I wanted…
Mark Antony, or Marcus Antonius as he was more correctly named, was known for many things: friend of Julius Caesar,…
by Erica Lainé Isabella had a gold matrix, or seal-die, which was used to make her seal as Queen of…
I’ve found that it’s easy to misjudge history, to confuse timelines from the relative luxury of the twenty-first century because…
As is usual for historical women, Queen Edith, wife of Edward the Confessor, has been given short shrift by historians.…
by Mercedes Rochelle Like many of us, I first learned of Richard II from Shakespeare. Even though I knew nothing…
In 1846 William John Thoms, a British writer, penned a letter to The Athenaeum, a British Magazine. In this letter,…
The Queen’s Fortune is an interesting title for a book about a woman who didn’t want to be queen; in…