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.

Sunday, 14 July 2013

How will the Royal birth be announced?

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An interesting article from Yahoo that neatly summarises the mix of modernity and tradition that we can expect when the Court formal...

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Sunday, 16 June 2013

Progress on the book

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Well, progress on my first non-fiction book, a history of the British monarchy, is going well. I was slightly behind where I would have ...

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Monday, 10 June 2013

Is the new "theory" that Elizabeth I was secretly a man too stupid to merit a discussion?

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Yes.

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Thursday, 6 June 2013

The Black Dinner and the Rains of Castamere

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PLEASE do not read this if you are currently reading A Song of Ice and Fire novels by George R.R. Martin or if you're watching the t...

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Saturday, 18 May 2013

An extract from my history of the British monarchy

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As some regular readers of the blog may now, I am currently working on a history of the British monarchy, which will be published later ...

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Monday, 22 April 2013

The weakness of Tsar Nicholas II

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Ask any schoolchild or anyone with a passing knowledge of history to come up with one adjective they associate with Russia's last em...

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Thursday, 18 April 2013

Meryl Streep's statement on the death of Lady Thatcher

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Actress Meryl Streep, who won the Academy Award for her performance as Margaret Thatcher in the motion picture The Iron Lady (above), has...

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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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