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• La Mode à La Cour De Marie Antoinette

  

  How beautiful is this book? I was pleased as punch when I got La mode à la Cour de Marie-Antoinette from my brother in law as a Christmas present, and also... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE, HISTORY

• Wolf Hall – 1. Three Card Trick Recently Updated !

  

  Well, like no doubt millions of people I tuned in last night for the first episode of the long awaited BBC adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall and Bring Up... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE, HISTORY

• A War of Flowers – Jane Thynne

  

  I’ve already reviewed the first two brilliant books in Jane Thynne’s Clara Vine series and had to come back and let you all know how much I absolutely loved A... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE, HISTORY

• Edinburgh Here I Come Recently Updated !

  

  Marie de Guise, Corneille de Lyon, c1537. Photo: National Galleries of Scotland.Ooh la la, or maybe that should be och aye the noo? It’s okay, simmer down, I’m... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE, HISTORY

• Tatty Devine Goes a Bit Tudor

  

  As you’ve probably all guessed by now, I have a tremendous soft spot for jewellery and especially like the designs of London based company, Tatty Devine. Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE, HISTORY

• Museum of London Docklands

  

  As a huge fan of the Museum of London and someone with an interest in, shall we say, the grittier side of London’s rich and chequered history, I can’t believe... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE, HISTORY

• Wolf Hall: Costume and Authenticity

  

  My recent post about the upcoming series of Wolf Hall sparked a bit of a lively debate about the costuming over on my Facebook page, with some criticisms of... Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE, HISTORY

• Fury Recently Updated !

  

  The Worst First Day At Work Ever is usually a rather pleasant cinematic or literary trope, wherein a usually hopelessly naive young thing starts a new job and... Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE, HISTORY

• Ripper Street Season Three 1 Recently Updated !

  

  It’s hard to believe that just a year has passed since the end of the second season of Ripper Street and the terrible news that the stupid BBC had decided to... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE, HISTORY

• Goodbye 2014 Recently Updated !

  

  I can’t believe that 2014 is already almost over and we’re now hurtling towards 2015. I have had SUCH an amazing twelve months that I’ve started and abandoned... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE, HISTORY

• Wolf Hall on BBC2 Recently Updated !

  

  As you probably all know by now, I am a MASSIVE HUUUGE fan of Hilary Mantel’s series of books about Thomas Cromwell (in fact, I’ve been a MASSIVE HUUUGE fan of... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE, HISTORY

• Marie De Guise Announcement Recently Updated !

  

  Marie de Guise, Corneille de Lyon, c1537. Photo: National Galleries of Scotland.I am very very pleased and happy and thrilled and EXCITED to announce that I hav... Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE, HISTORY

• Light up the Palace at Hampton Court

  

  It was one of the happiest days of my life when I found The Tudors on Netflix. Okay, I also own it on DVD, but there’s something really satisfying about spendin... Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE, HISTORY

• Swallows and Amazons at Bristol Old Vic

  

  Swallows and Amazons: Photo: Bristol Old Vic/Simon Annand.I’ll admit that thanks to a combination of depression, illness and other assorted woes, I haven’t... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE, HISTORY

• From Whitechapel Book Launch

  

  From Whitechapel has been well and truly launched! On a dark and gloomy evening last week, a group of various misfits gathered together in the historic Gun pub... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE, HISTORY

• Joséphine Crowned, 2nd December 1804

  

  Sunday, the second of December 1804 was the coldest day of the year, with snow overnight and freezing rain the next morning, which turned the streets of Paris t... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE, HISTORY

• Stormbird – Conn Iggulden

  

  ‘King Henry V – the great Lion of England – is long dead. In 1437, after years of regency, the pious and gentle Henry VI, the Lamb, comes of age and accedes to... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE, HISTORY

• Marie De Guise

  

  , Corneille de Lyon, c1537. Photo: National Galleries of Scotland.It’s probably no secret that my next novel, The Thistle Queen will be about Marie de Guise, th... Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE, HISTORY

• A Real Life Sherlock – Guest Post by Angela Buckley

  

  On the evening of 6 December 1886, Arthur Foster left the Queen’s Theatre, Manchester, with a pocket full of gold and a bejewelled lady on his arm. Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE, HISTORY

• Elizabeth and Philip: a Royal Wedding, 1947

  

  Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip, Baron Studios, 1947. Photo: Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2014. Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE, HISTORY