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Showing posts with label middle ages. Show all posts
Showing posts with label middle ages. Show all posts
Saturday, June 21, 2025

Book Launch: Marguerite: Hell Hath No Fury—Judith Arnopp’s Powerful Take on a Queen’s Story

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  Marguerite: Queen of England From the moment Henry VI's new queen, Marguerite of Anjou, sets foot on English soil she is despised by...
Saturday, May 21, 2022

Book spotlight and excerpt: The Colour of Rubies by Toni Mount

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  THE COLOUR OF RUBIES Murder lurks at the heart of the royal court in the rabbit warren of the Palace of Westminster. The year is 1480. Tre...
Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Spotlight on novelist Mercedes Rochelle

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Mercedes Rochelle Fun Facts Oh dear, I’m very shy about making myself the center of attention. That’s the first thing you di...
Monday, December 2, 2019

The Briton and the Dane: Concordia - Coffee Pot Book Club Book of the Year Honorable Mention - Early Medieval

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Honorable Mention The Coffee Pot Book Club Book of the Year The Historical Fiction Book of the Year  Early Medieval Travel...
Friday, November 15, 2019

The Briton and the Dane: Concordia - Coffee Pot Book Club Book of the Year Finalist - Early Medieval

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Finalist  The Coffee Pot Book Club Book of the Year The Historical Fiction Book of the Year  Early Medieval Travel back in ti...
Thursday, June 7, 2018

What was the sweating sickness in Tudor England?

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History Extra A rather mysterious illness, the sweating sickness hit in a series of epidemics, but was not always fatal.  Symptoms i...
Monday, June 4, 2018

How many executions was Henry VIII responsible for?

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History Extra It is impossible to tell for sure, and historians have no definitive number. It is estimated that anywhere from 57,000 t...
Thursday, May 24, 2018

How many fingers did Anne Boleyn have?

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History Extra There is no concrete evidence that Anne Boleyn had six fingers. George Wyatt, grandson of court poet and ambassador Sir ...
Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Was Henry VIII a good king?

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History Extra The success of Henry’s reign is mixed. Economically, England flourished, partially at the expense of countless monasterie...
Thursday, May 17, 2018

What happened to Katherine Parr’s daughter, Mary Seymour, after her mother’s death?

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History Extra Following Katherine’s death a matter of days after Mary’s birth, the newborn’s father, Thomas Seymour, placed Mary in th...
Friday, May 4, 2018

5 Bayeux Tapestry facts: what is it, why was it made and what story does it tell?

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History Extra The French president Emmanuel Macron recently announced that the Bayeux Tapestry is to go on display in the UK. But what ...
Saturday, April 21, 2018

Like Something Out of The Walking Dead: Medieval Warrior Found with Knife Hand Prosthesis

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Ancient Origins In the American post-apocalyptic horror television series The Walking Dead , redneck hunter Merle Dixon fashions a kni...