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Maria Merian's Butterflies & Flowers by Janie Hampton
I have always loved detailed, exotic flower designs such as William Morris's 'Pomegranate' wallpaper and Osborne & Little curtains. But until I visited the Queen's Gallery recently, I had no idea...
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Standing Alone on the Edge of Europe by Julie Summers
Earl Grey 1764–1845© Lord HowickI woke up on Friday morning in a strange house in an unfamiliar county with that lovely feeling of being somewhere new and exciting. That was until I went downstairs,...
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English Midwives in India by Julia Gregson
Credit: Alex PownallOur guest for June is Julia Gregson. She says of herself:In my career as a journalist I spent four days with Muhammad Ali in a boxer’s training camp in Pennsylvania, interviewed...
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To win a a copy of Julia Gregson's Monsoon Summer, answer the question below in the Comments section:"Who do you consider to have been the greatest female health educator in history and why?"Then email...
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Happy Birthday to Us! By Mary Hoffman and various History Girls
Today is the fifth birthday of the History Girls blog and we want you to celebrate with us, so pull up a chair, pour yourself a glass of virtual bubbles:Grab a slice of virtual cake:and join us in...
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Treasuring history through fiction, by Gillian Polack
This month other History Girls are writing about favourite books. I did that recently, so I thought, to balance those posts, I’d give you some context. Those books that we read and that we treasure and...
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A visit to Little Moreton Hall - Katherine Langrish
On a trip to the north of England at the beginning of June, we stopped off in Cheshire to visit Little Moreton Hall which as you can see is an utterly gorgeous Tudor manor house not far from Congleton....
View ArticleGetting Dressed as a Victorian Lady - Joan Lennon
If you don't have a lot of experience of historical re-enactment, you might consider this video on the process of dressing in the Victorian age - I know I learned a lot! For example, the shoes before...
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Island of Last Hope by Lydia Syson
Left to right, in the front row: Pilot Officer Mirosław Ferić, Flight Lieutenant John A Kent (Commander of ‘A’ Flight – Kent wrote out phonetically on his trouser leg the Polish words for every...
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HISTORY IN THE MAKING, by Vanora Bennett
Being a part of history in the making is never comfortable. I learned that in my previous life as a foreign reporter, covering the various coups, conflicts, and crises that afflicted the people whose...
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Perfumes....by Adèle Geras
The cutting I've photographed above highlights the ancient art of soap making, associated for many centuries with Marseille. You can't see what it says but basically SAVON DE MARSEILLE is fighting to...
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Perfumes....by Adèle Geras
The cutting I've photographed above highlights the ancient art of soap making, associated for many centuries with Marseille. You can't see what it says but basically SAVON DE MARSEILLE is fighting to...
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'Medieval Murder (Part 2) - How to Protect Yourself from Poison' by Karen...
This maybe be cupid, but that's a bottle of poison he's holdingLast month I looked ten popular poisons of the Middle Ages. With so many ways to kill a victim it was little wonder people were constantly...
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The Best Historical Novel Ever Written?
by Caroline Lawrence‘Be careful what you read; a book can change your life.’That is how I often start my presentation when I talk to schoolchildren about my historical novels set in Ancient Rome. For...
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A mole on the belly - Michelle Lovric
Some years ago, I was lucky enough to spend a few days immersed in an old book at the British Library. This one was called THE Amorous Gallant's Tongue Tipp'd with GOLDEN EXPRESSIONS OR, THE Art of...
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Anna Mazzola, Interview and Review by Katherine Clements
Every now and then a debut novel comes along that stands out from the crowd. The Unseeing by Anna Mazzola is one.Sarah Gale is a seamstress, prostitute and single mother, incarcerated in Newgate...
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BONES
The last few days have been skeleton-heavy. Royal tombs and dinosaur bones have marked my over-enthusiastic start to the school holidays, which has left us all exhausted.First was a trip to Windsor...
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5 BOOKS THAT INSPIRED THE GIRL IN THE GLASS TOWER – Elizabeth Fremantle
Research for my novels comes as much from reading fiction as it does from reading historical sources. This was particularly the case when I was preparing to write The Girl in the Glass Tower. Here are...
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Nice Frock! Globalism and cotton prints. Catherine Johnson
This month's post is partially inspired by Joan Lennon's informative blog last week about Victorian dressing, the link is here....
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Amelia Bloomer, by Y S Lee
Last weekend, I travelled to the village of Homer, NY, to do an author visit at the Phillips Free Library. While strolling down Main Street, I was delighted to come across this plaque: "Childhood home...
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