Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, the man who would come to be known as El Cid, the Campeador, started out from…
The Early Medieval era or The Dark Ages as it is more commonly known, is one my favourite eras and…
When we think of the story of King Arthur—an English squire who pulls a sword from the stone to become…
When Margaret Clitherow is arrested on the dark streets of Tudor York, her friends, led by a youthful Guy Fawkes,…
As a historical novelist, I’m fascinated by the gaps in history, the silenced stories, the holes that riddle our past.…
Although Henry VIII is famous for abandoning, beheading and divorcing his wives it seems he didn’t enjoy ‘goodbyes.’ Each of…
In 1846 William John Thoms, a British writer, penned a letter to The Athenaeum, a British Magazine. In this letter,…