Wednesday, 19 November 2014

Portrait of an Ageing Elizabeth I

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Glenda Jackson as Elizabeth I in the BBC series Elizabeth R As part of the promotions for my new book An Illustrated Introduction to th...
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Monday, 17 November 2014

"Manages to bring history alive in an entertaining way. The entertainment, however, is never at the cost of history."

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There have been two reviews of An Illustrated Introduction to the Tudors  - from Stephanie A. Mann, author of Supremacy and Survival: Ho...
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Friday, 7 November 2014

Royal inbreeding: how reliable is one of history's most popular stories?

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The Hapsburg Emperor Leopold I by Jan Thomas van Leperen, c. 1667 Portraits of the slack-jawed and bug-eyed Hapsburgs, hair fair and st...
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Monday, 3 November 2014

My new book and a year of life with Catherine Howard

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I am absolutely delighted to be say that my biography of Catherine Howard, Young and Damned and Fair: The Life and Tragedy of Catherine...
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Friday, 31 October 2014

An Unconventional King and a fantastic story: An interview with Kathryn Warner

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Knowledge is a compellingly beautiful thing and by that I mean the kind possessed by the master of their trade, rather than the jac...
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Tuesday, 21 October 2014

My new book is out next week!

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Good afternoon! I am delighted to announce that I have a new book out next week with Amberley. As part of their gorgeous "An Illus...
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Competition winner!

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Many congratulations to Libby, who won the competition to receive a copy of Sara Cockerill's new book, Eleanor of Castile: The Shado...