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.

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Monday, 28 February 2011

Defending Catherine Howard

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Above: British actress Tamzin Merchant as Catherine Howard in Series 4 of The Tudors . It has been some time since I posted here, because...

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Thursday, 9 September 2010

"Titanic" gets a sequel

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How gloriously awful .

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Tuesday, 8 June 2010

More on the fox attacks in London

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The Daily Mail is carrying more information on the terrible attack by an urban fox on the two infant daughters of high street fashion desi...

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Monday, 29 March 2010

Fig Monday

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“Verily, I say unto you, that the publicans and the harlots go into the Kingdom of God before you.” - The Gospel according to Saint Matthe...

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Thursday, 25 March 2010

Hugging

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Recently I got to thinking (yay!) about hugging and it was actually the events of last week which made me really think about. Hugging, in ge...

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Wednesday, 24 March 2010

In the beginning...

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After several months of fearing that my technophobia meant that any attempt at blogging would end in a total and complete disaster (not diss...

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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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