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| | | | Today, it is a pleasure to welcome Tony Riches back to History...the Interesting Bits, with an article about the story behind his new novel, Frances: Tudor Countess. Frances Walsingham was the daughter of Queen Elizabeth's spymaster, Francis Walsingham who married three times, including the soldier-poet, Sir Philip Sidney and, later, Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex... | |
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| | | | In this week's Wordly Women interview, I chat with historian, Catherine Hanley, who spends most of her time in the 13th century | |
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| | | | Empress Matilda depicted at the coronation of her granddaughter, Matilda of England, as Duchess of Saxony, in an image from the Gospels of Henry the Lion. In the mid-12th century, England was riven by civil war as King Stephen and Empress Matilda fought for a crown that was rightfully hers. In 1141, the empress came... | |
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| | Fiction - paperback; Canongate; 320 pages; 2004. A couple of years ago I read MJ Hyland's Booker Prize shortlisted novel, Carry Me Down, which I greatly admired. Her ability to get inside the head of a disturbed 11-year-old boy was nothing short of extraordinary.Her debut novel, How the Light Gets In -- written two years... |