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Evocatio - how to entice a goddess by Elisabeth Storrs
The third novel in my A Tale of Ancient Rome saga is entitled Call to Juno. It is set in the final year of a ten year siege between the Etruscan city of Veii and the nascent Republican Rome in 396 BC....
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KINGS IN CAR PARKS: Perhaps and perhaps not.
A couple Of days ago a friend thought that I might be interested in a brief piece from LBC news concerning Philippa Langley's claims that the body of King Henry I is currently residing under yet...
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A Sense of Place by Miranda Miller
Angelica Kauffman self portrait at twelve A few years ago, I had a Royal Literary Fund fellowship to help students at the Courtauld Institute, then in...
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An afternoon of Mediterranean Discoveries at the Arab World Institute in...
Two angles of l'Institut du Monde Arabe (IMA), ParisRecently, I had lunch under a thunder-grey sky in...
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How do you dig a Siege Tunnel?
If you've ever been to St Andrews you'll know it's not only the home of golf and site of Scotland's oldest university but the town itself is steeped in history. Once a great centre of pilgrimage, the...
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A visit to the Cathedral Church of St Michael in Coventry.... by Adèle Geras
Back in early April, Celia Rees, of this parish, Linda Newbery and I met in Coventry with the express purpose of visiting the Cathedral of St Michael. We felt quite triumphant when we got together...
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From Spanish Horror Into French HellMaggie BrookesWhen one story ends, another begins. My novel Acts of Love and War finishes in 1939 as my protagonists leave war-torn Spain and cross into France. They...
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Is there history in your fiction? by Gillian Polack
So...I’m a fiction writer, but I also wrote a book called History and Fiction. A lot of this blogpost comes from the research I did for that. If you want ‘aha’ moments for when I borrow from myself,...
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The Walled Orchard by Tom Holt -- A Review by Susan Price
The only real regret I have about growing so old is the fact that I shan't live long enough to read the scathing dismemberment of the clowns who presently infest our public life by a historian who has...
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Bicycling Ladies Revisited by Joan Lennon
In 2012, I wrote a History Girls post about Bicycles and Revolution - I was just a reservist back then, and it was just a casual interest. Eleven years later, it is becoming a bit more than that as I...
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Inspiration and a Historic House Revisited by Sheena Wilkinson
I've had Covid recently and though officially 'better' I am distinctly tired physically and mentally, so this will be a short post. Last week I was in London -- not the most sensible post-Covid...
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Music in WWII by Kathryn Gauci
Music has always had the power to move us in ways we find both sentimental and stirring. Throughout history, armies have gone into battle to the dramatic accompaniment of musicians, the sound meant to...
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'The Secret lies in the Thimble' by Karen Maitland
17th Century silver thimblePhoto: LlangefniIn my Jacobean novel Traitor in the Ice, one of my characters passes a secret note to another folded into a band and hidden inside a thimble. This method of...
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The Serpent of Division - review by Mary Hoffman
You might know Christina Hardyment from her books of popular sociology (Dream Babies; The Future of the Family; From Mangle to Microwave) or literary biographies (Malory: the Life and Tmes of King...
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The Caryatids: The (Ancient) History Girls by Caroline K. Mackenzie
The ascent to the Athenian Acropolis.© Caroline K. Mackenzie.If you have ever climbed the steep steps up to the Acropolis in Athens, you will hopefully agree that the arduous ascent is worth every...
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History keeps changing - writing The Fortune Keeper
By Deborah SwiftI was really interested to read this week, that the coded letters of Mary Queen of Scots have just been deciphered by modern computer scientists and decoders. Undoubtedly this will...
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Octopus dreams: Japan, Stonehenge, Knossos ~ by Lesley Downer
takotsubo ya Octopus pot hakanaki yume o Fleeting dreams natsu no tsuki Beneath the summer moon Matsuo Bashō...
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The Man Who Slew Wat Tyler by Laurie Graham
William Walworth is remembered chiefly as the man who slew Wat Tyler in an impetuous and possibly unnecessary show of concern for the safety of a fourteen year-old king, Richard II. It earned him an...
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Caroline Herschel - by Sue Purkiss
I've been interested for some time in the network of artists and scientists who coalesced around the wealthy, charismatic and imposing figure of Sir Joseph Banks. Banks launched his career (which was...
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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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