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, 28 December 2013

Some of my favourite reads of 2013

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Tudor: The Family Story  by Leanda de Lisle. Leanda's biography of Lady Jane Grey and her sisters Katherine and Mary is my favourite ...
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Sunday, 8 December 2013

Auditions for "The Gate of the Year"

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I am very excited about a performance in February of my new play, The Gate of the Year . If anyone in the Belfast or County Down area is ...
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Saturday, 16 November 2013

Resounding to the Name of Mary: British queens and the Virgin

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16 November is the Feast of the Patronage of Our Lady in the Roman Catholic communion and in honour of the Virgin's feast day, I wou...
Wednesday, 6 November 2013

The mothers of the queens of England

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To mark the completion of my new book on the British royal families (release date, 2014), I thought I'd post on the mothers of the E...
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Sunday, 3 November 2013

Claire Bloom discusses playing Lady Marchmain

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Award-winning actress Claire Bloom has played some of history's most famous women, including Katherine of Aragon in Henry VIII , the...
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Wednesday, 16 October 2013

A "popular" Kindle Fire and Amazon giveaway!

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My wonderful publishers and I are involved in a Halloween spectacular give-away that's aiming to promote awareness for young or fir...
Sunday, 15 September 2013

A publicity post about "The Immaculate Deception"

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My lovely publishers at MadeGlobal have posted some publicity information about the theatrical adaptation of "The Immaculate Deception,...
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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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