I first published this post on March 19, 2011. It was a little post about some of the cool historical research I was doing at the time, for a book I was planning to write that would later become Kiss Across Chains. This little nugget post ended up being one of the most popular posts on […]
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475 years ago today, Catherine Howard was beheaded, after being found guilty of adultery while married to Henry VIII. Historians argue over whether the queen was really guilty, or a merely bubble-headed object manipulated for political gain. The verdict on that question is still out. I have a tenuous connection with Catherine Howard, as I
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As Christmas Day falls on a Monday, this year I get to say Merry Christmas on the actual day. May you and yours have a wonderful day, eat far too much, regret it as usual, and relax with your loved ones and wonder where the year went. And because my blog wouldn’t be
A young Queen Elizabeth on a one pound note, circa 1976The second season episodes of the most expensive TV series ever produced, The Crown, which cost a mere $130M, just dropped on Netflix a few days ago. It’s interesting timing, because today is the 81st anniversary of the day that Britain’s King Edward VIII renounced
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History is a really cool place to wander. You learn all sorts of interesting facts and you can make connections between previously unrelated events, people and places. So what has me excited now? The French Foreign Legion. In a lot of Victorian romances, the disgraced hero or the bad boy would escape their soiled reputation
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All Of Time And The Whole World, Too When you’re writing time travel novels, deciding where and when in history your main characters are going to travel back to can be an overwhelming decision. After all, the author can pick any time in history — that’s about twelve thousands years of human history, right there.
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Lá Fhéile Pádraig = “the Day of the Festival of Patrick” — Saint Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland, which is where the wearing of the green comes into it. (Also, green beer. ugh.) Patrick was a Roman British man who was enslaved and taken to Ireland, where he found God. He escaped Ireland
There are approximately five million people with February 29 birthdays. They’re known as leapers. (As distinct from lepers, but that’s a little bit too close for comfort!) It used to be that leapers had issues with insurance companies and banks and other big organizations, who wouldn’t (or couldn’t) recognize February 29 as a legitimate birth