Britain’s ‘Little Ice Age’
It's hardly surprising in the UK that we are notorious for talking about the weather, for it is nothing if not unpredictable. Take the last 2 weeks - where I…
Dipping in to Viking era Scotland
Today I'm welcoming a fellow historical author, Jen Black onto the site to highlight her new book set in the 11th century. A wee bit before my period of expertise…
That was the week, that was (well, two weeks, actually).
You know the feeling when you decide to do something and you've no idea how to do it and it's probably crazy anyway? Well, that was my position two weeks…
Mathilda’s Spy (or is he?)
For all you good folk who have been following the Historical fiction blog Hop here is the final character interview in the blog hop series - and this time it…
In lieu of Richard III (who is currently unavailable).
How well do you know the story of King Richard III? Not as well as Matthew Wansford. Now I’ve been a fan of Richard III since I first read Josephine…
Munro speaks up for himself in the Interview my character Blog hop.
If you've been following the Meet My Character Blog Hop, you'll know we've been to lots of different locations and centuries already and today it's the turn of Ayrshire in…
The art of illustration
Sometimes you stumble over a link to something particularly beautiful. This time it was via a Facebook link to a digital resource which has been made freely available - of…
Meet my character – no 6.
Today is no 6 in the interviews with characters blog hop and today we go to Vanessa Couchman's blog to meet Wimer - 12th century priest,courtesy of Nicky Moxey's book…
Meet the Character Blog Hop no 4
Derek Birks aka Hereticus interviews Nicholaa de la Haye https://dodgingarrows.wordpress.com/2019/06/22/the-historical-writers-forum-brings-you-an-interview-with-lady-nicholaa-de-haye/?fbclid=IwAR2inwfkDOJNedP067OJOi5vtweIgMV6gYQIlOvDIE-xq8VIyf759ibu1zo She certainly was determined, but not unwomanly. And someone I didn't really know much about before. As my husband would…
Lovely review of By Sword and Storm
Thank you to Jessica at The Bookworm Chronicles https://thebookwormchronicles.wordpress.com/2019/06/20/new-read-by-sword-and-storm/?unapproved=16891&moderation-hash=9cf695a45e7f8e3aa3982038e286f93d#comment-16891 For a lovely review of By Sword and Storm Two sentences really stood out and encouraged me - 'Each time the…