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Sunday, July 27, 2014

Rome's talking statues - the Abbot, the waterseller, and the baboon

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Rome, 1572 It's threes all the way:  In Part 3 of this three-part post on the Talking Statues of Rome, we will talk about three st...
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Sunday, July 20, 2014

Talking Statues 2: Marforio and Madama Lucrezia

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Marforio, in the Musei Capitolini In Part 2 of this three-part post on the Talking Statues of Rome, we will talk about Marforio and Mad...
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Sunday, July 13, 2014

A Congregation of Wits

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Pasquino In Renaissance Rome, poetry was a weapon.  Free speech was not exactly a commonly-held value in those days – at least not by t...
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Saturday, July 5, 2014

A Potted History of Sudeley Castle and some thoughts on the people who lived there (guest post by Judith Arnopp)

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Today I'd like to welcome Judith Arnopp, author of many wonderful historical novels, who is introducing her most recent book, Intrac...
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Sunday, June 29, 2014

Indentured servants - the backbone of the colonies (guest post by Anna Belfrage)

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  Revenge & Retribution is the sixth book in Anna Belfrage's time slip series featuring time traveller Alexandra Lind and her s...
Sunday, June 1, 2014

Invoking the Muses

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After making an exhaustive study of what's selling and what's not in historical fiction (by which I mean I looked at some Ama...
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Sunday, May 25, 2014

Medieval Moms III: The Sinner

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Francesca da Rimini, the third woman in my Medieval Moms series, was a sinner.  (Last week was the saint:  see here .) How do we know s...
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