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…
Looking for inspiration for this article, (in days that now seem far away, before the Covid-19 lock down), I ended…
When Margaret Clitherow is arrested on the dark streets of Tudor York, her friends, led by a youthful Guy Fawkes,…
I did not set out to write a trilogy although I have always believed in the power of three. Three…
Carving in the church in Lusignan Isabella married twice and both her husbands belonged to families that believed they were…
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…
by Erica Lainé Isabella had a gold matrix, or seal-die, which was used to make her seal as Queen of…
I’ve found that it’s easy to misjudge history, to confuse timelines from the relative luxury of the twenty-first century because…