Saturday, 31 January 2015

A few days in Oxford

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Good morning! This was my view as I emerged from work yesterday afternoon. I am back in Oxford, carrying out some research for my biogr...
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Monday, 29 December 2014

My Top 10 Books of 2014

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Good evening! This was a great year for books, I think. The year started of well for fans of the sixteenth century with Lauren Mackay...
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Friday, 5 December 2014

The ghosts of Versailles

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Stephanie Dale as Marie-Antoinette (seating) with Rebecca Lenaghan as Gabrielle de Polignac This December, I have been working on a re...
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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