Confessions of a Ci-Devant

Musings on history, life, popular culture, and art by historian Gareth Russell. All opinions, unless otherwise stated, are either my own or possibly Gabrielle de Polignac's.

Saturday, 21 August 2021

Goodbye and thank you

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Dear all, As it's been four years since I last contributed to this blog, this might be a service preached over a filled-in grave, but I ...

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Wednesday, 1 November 2017

Adrienne Dillard reviews a new biography of Charles I

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Leanda de Lisle's first book, After Elizabeth , was a fascinating account of the dying days of the Tudor dynasty and the subsequent t...

Friday, 22 September 2017

"Something Like Summer": Movie review

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In 2011, American author Jay Bell released the first novel in what subsequently became a self-published phenomenon, winning fans acro...

Friday, 21 April 2017

My new book: a biography of Queen Catherine Howard

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As readers of this blog will know, for the last few years I have been working on a biography of Henry VIII's fifth wife, Queen Cath...

Thursday, 8 December 2016

"The Shadow of the Cross" by Dmitry Yakhovsky

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I am delighted to host new author Dmitry Yakhovsky on his book tour to promote his debut book, The Shadow of the Cross: Imprisonment . ...

Saturday, 19 November 2016

Kyra Kramer discusses Tudor England's "boy king"

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As part of MadeGlobal's series of book tours, I have the pleasure of hosting a stop and guest post from medical anthropologist and au...

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Gareth Russell: Gareth Russell is the author of four works of non-fiction, including the critically-acclaimed biography of Queen Catherine Howard, "Young and Damned and Fair", and two novels set in his native Belfast.

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