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.

Monday, 15 June 2015

Lady Cecily Stonor of Stonor Park

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The Church of Saint Mary the Virgin in Oxford, where the distribution of Catholic literature helped expose Lady Cecily's devotion to h...

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Sunday, 14 June 2015

Edits, writing, research and trips

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Beautiful Portballintrae on the Northern Irish coast, where I've been doing a lot of my writing I have just returned from a flying...

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Monday, 20 April 2015

"Mary Boleyn" competition - winner!

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British actress Charity Wakefield as Mary Boleyn in the television series Wolf Hall (2015) The competition to win a copy of Sarah Bryso...

Thursday, 26 March 2015

A History of the English Monarchy

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Henry V at Agincourt. Throughout the book, I am fascinated by the ways in which the legends of Camelot fuelled the monarchy's venerati...

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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...

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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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