novelists

Sharon Kay Penman-A Tribute

Jan 26, 2021

archaeology, Book Reviews, Science, The play’s the thing

“Princes”, Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre, Leicester dig, novelists, obituaries, Richard III, scoliosis, Sharon Kay Penman, The Sunne in Splendour, The Welsh Princes Trilogy, William Shakespeare

Ask many Ricardians how they got their first glimpse of a non-Shakespearean Richard III, and many will tell you it was one of two novels—Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey or The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman. Sadly, on January 22, Sharon Penman, who continued to be a great supporter of Richard’s cause…
Anne Neville was a Tudor….?

Dec 13, 2018

anniversaries, genealogy, humour

“Tudors”, Anne Neville, Catherine de Valois, Catherine of Aragon, Gregory, Henry VIII, inaccuracy, novelists, Richard III, Richard of Warwick

Sooo….her guilty secret is finally revealed. According to this post , Anne Neville was a Tudor! No wonder she‘s shocked…and Richard is giving her a sideways look. Oh, dear.
A strange Reformation relic

Jul 5, 2018

humour, law, religion, Science

Act of Supremacy, Archbishop Cranmer, clerical celibacy, clerical marriage, cold weather, Edward VI, Henry VIII, Lewis Carroll, Mary I, mathematics, metaphors, novelists, Oxford University, priesthood, Reformation, thawing

Think of a cold week in this or your own country, with snow. On the last day, it thaws. You look out during the late afternoon and there remains a small patch of snow, in a seemingly random location. In a way, the English Reformation was like this. It began, arguably, in 1534. By the…
Hostile Historians and Uppity Authors: Never the Twain Shall Meet?

Jun 23, 2017

Alternative History

bad historical fiction, books, David Starkey, Elizabeth of York, Francis Viscount Lovell, Gregory, Henry of Buckingham, Henry VII, historians, Joanna, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Mantel, Manuel, novelists, Richard III, satire, Shakespeare

You would have had to have been locked a dark dungeon in the Tower not to have noticed that there is a new TV series out based on a Philippa Gregory bestseller. THE WHITE PRINCESS has hit the screens in the US (no dates for the UK this time; the BBC bailed after The White…

novelists

Sharon Kay Penman-A Tribute

Anne Neville was a Tudor….?

A strange Reformation relic

Hostile Historians and Uppity Authors: Never the Twain Shall Meet?