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,…