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Mr. Keynes' Revolution and Mr Keynes' Dance by E.J.Barnes. Review by Penny Dolan
The central character of E.J. Barnes’ two historical novelsis the economist John Maynard Keynes: ‘transformative thinker, government adviser, financial...
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Earth Mysteries - Torre d'en Galmés - Menorca - Celia Rees
At the beginning of October, I went to Menorca on a Yoga Retreat. Weather perfect, lovely place and I love the Balearics. I've spent time on Ibiza, but I’d never been to Menorca. It is smaller than...
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Of a Cave Unknown By L.J. Trafford
I have spent the past ten years writing about Ancient Rome. I’ve written four novels, three non-fiction books, three short stories and a total of 27 History Girls articles. Somebody really should stop...
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Medieval climate change by Carolyn Hughes
A couple of weeks ago here in the UK, we put our clocks back one hour from daylight saving time. So now it’s more or less dark by 4.30pm. I know that some people suffer from SAD, seasonal affective...
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Tullia Minor - Rome's Murderous 'Bad Girl' by Elisabeth Storrs
Tullia runs over the Corpse of her Father by Jean Bardin (1765)In previous posts, I’ve told the stories of exemplary women of Roman legend such as Lucretia, Verginia and Tanaquil. In The Legend of...
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History repeats. ‘Almost pathological madness’: the monster cruise ships to...
Luigi Brugnaro, Venice’s mayor, has never quite given up on the cruise ships – not even after they were banished to Marghera to the applause of the entire world, (apart from the cruise industrialists...
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Anne Boleyn's Book of Hours by Judith Allnatt
On 19th May this year I visited Hever Castle, Anne Boleyn's childhood home. It was on this day in 1536 that Anne was beheaded at the Tower of London following charges of adultery, incest and plotting...
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Queen Square by Miranda Miller Most references to queens in London are memorials to Queen Victoria but this statue in the gardens of Queen Square is of Queen Charlotte, the wife of George 111 who was...
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One Day in Dublin, by Carol Drinkwater
One Day in DublinDue to Covid and work restraints, I hadn't been back home to Ireland since the beginning of the pandemic. It meant that my trip planned for late November of...
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Why did men wear Cod Pieces? by Vicky Masters
I went to see the rock group Jethro Tull perform on several occasions when I was a lot younger. The front man, Ian Anderson, would stand on one leg playing the flute, which was fairly impressive, but...
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The Turban in Fashion by Kathryn Gauci
Doris Kenyon We’ve all seen glamorous photographs of Hollywood stars like Greta Garbo looking stunning in her turban, yet Hollywood was not the first to make the turban all the rage. What began as a...
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Ally Pally Prison Camp by Maggie Brookes
Growing up in North London, Alexandra Palace has always been on my skyline. The first palace opened on Queen Victoria's 54th birthday, burning down 16 days later, but being immediately rebuilt.When I...
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I have been saved from a post I didn’t want to write by an email on 1 January. Today, you see, is a national holiday in Australia. Australia Day embodies so many dreams and so many conflicts and so...
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THE LANGUAGE OF FANS ... by Susan Stokes-Chapman
It exercises the office of the zephyrs, and cools the glowing breast. It saves the blush of modesty by showing all we wish to see, yet hiding all that we desire to conceal. It serves the purpose of a...
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Great Minds: 2500 Years of Thinkers and Philosophy (Haig, Lennon, Ducci) -...
I joined the History Girls as a writer of historical fiction for 8-12 year olds, way back in 2012. And now I write historical non-fiction for 8-12 year olds. It's not as different to writing historical...
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A Gentle Meander by Sheena Wilkinson
Like most History Girls I love reading – fiction, non-fiction, old favourites, new releases, whatever I’m in the mood for. Sometimes, especially if I’m having a vexatious time with the vagaries of the...
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Family Junk or Family Treasure? by Janet Few
Having recently moved house, for what really must be the last time, I have become acutely aware of just how much ‘stuff’ I have. Much of this has accompanied me on my life’s perambulations from south...
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'Inigo Jones - Inventor of the Glitter Ball' by Karen Maitland
Inigo Jones (1573-16520Artist: William Hogarth (1697-1764)National Maritime Museum, GreenwichToday, we mainly remember Inigo Jones as an architect, but he actually got his first shot at designing a...
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"Hans the Most Famous"* by Mary Hoffman
Hans Holbein the Younger, Self-portraitThink of Henry Vlll and what picture floats into yoir mind? Or Thomas Cromwell, or Thomas More? The likely answer is an image painted by Hans Holbein the...
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Stories in Flowers by Caroline K. Mackenzie
Spring is on its way. It has been a long winter (or, at least, it feels that way) and the bursting of buds and arrival of flowers bring welcome signs of new life. In a former History Girls Blog, I...
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In Defence of Poland by Rebecca Alexander
My first neighbours were a couple in their eighties from Poland. As time went on, they told me stories of life in childhood, celebrations, food, the Slavic language, the beautiful landscape and grand...
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The Aspidistra Radio Transmitter #WW2
by Deborah SwiftHarold Robin - WW2 Radio EngineerThe Shadow Network which forms the title of my latest book refers to the fake news radio stations set up by Sefton Delmer in WW2. These secret radio...
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The Men who Ate Gold ~ by Lesley Downer
Like a great cloud The Wiraqochas [Whites] Demanding gold Have invaded us. The Death of Atau Wallpa, Runasimi [Quechua] epic lament put into writing in...
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Art, Colonialism and Change by Stephanie Williams
If you move fast, you can just catch the fabulous exhibition Entangled Pasts 1768-Now, Art, Colonialism and Change at the Royal Academy in London which ends on 28 April.Yinka Shonibare CBE RA used the...
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Ada Lovelace - by Sue Purkiss
On a recent stay on Exmoor, I came across an article about someone called Ada Lovelace. I had vaguely heard of her, but if you'd asked me why, I wouldn't have been able to tell you. Yet she turns out...
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