“Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.”
Enid Anne Sylvia and Vernon Cable. There seems to’ve been a strange tradition in my family to Christian their children one way but “call” them another way. Enid Anne Sylvia was my beloved Nan. Known to us as Anne. Vernon was her brother. Known to the world as Tom. This is one of two books […]
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Everyone knows that the queen is the most dominant piece in chess, but few people know that the game existed for five hundred years without her. It wasn’t until chess became a popular pastime for European royals during the Middle Ages that the queen was born and was gradually empowered to become the king’s fierce […]
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Her daughter’s book. Got it. Read it! Dietrich would quickly rise to stardom on the Berlin stage in the 1920’s with her sharp wit and bisexual sexuality–while wearing the top hat and tails that revolutionized our concept of beauty and femininity. Dietrich comes alive in these pages in all of her incarnations: as muse, artistic […]
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Guess what happens to the “poetess” who tries to outdo a Cathar Trobairitz? Public! Humiliation! What you GIVE is what you GET?
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Feasts, banquets and grand dinners have always played a vital role in our lives. They oil the wheels of diplomacy, smooth the paths of the ambitious and spread joy at family celebrations. Nichola Fletcher has selected the most colourful feasts in history to give a captivating account of why we enjoy gathering around a table […]
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I’ve got this book and read it. Ooops. Re-wind. I’ve got this book and tried to read it. And also one about the Mid -evil Irish Laws that governed women. If you’ve ever come across either and tried to make sense of this BS – you’ll understand where I’m coming from. Short GB précis of […]
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Wiki : Frenchman’s Creek Or via Amazon The Restoration Court knows Lady Dona St Columb to be ripe for any folly, any outrage that will alter the tedium of her days. But there is another, secret Dona who longs for freedom, honest love – and sweetness, even if it is spiced with danger. To escape […]
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The Scoundrel’s Dictionary, the anonymous 18th century pamphlet, has amused me for a few years now but it is quite hard to read in the original type-setting. Too many OLDE WORLDE confusions of S and F. Anyway, in this monograph I have modernised much of the original 18th century spelling and included several annotations to, […]
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Puhlease – will someone, somewhere explain to me why Women in MS History are usually only ever categorised as a Whore or a Virgin? Below is chapter 1 of Empress of the East. Roxelana was (?!) a Slave and a Concubine. A Witch. A Seductress. And an Unwanted Foreign Interloper. REALLY? What about a good […]
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Tell the TRUTH. LMFAO :o) I did that this morning in a live chat and was told in a very unladylike fashion to Fuck Off then. So I did. Being very obedient to FAKE Controllers!!! NOT I went into town, to a secondhand bookshop and found the book above for a couple of quid. Nice. […]
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Not bored to death but murder most foul . . . Celebrated author John Heppel is known in Lochdubh as a self-important bore, prone to belittling the scribblings of the locals in his creative writing class. So when he’s found dead, his mouth oozing ink, it seems a fitting fate.But for PC Hamish Macbeth the […]
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For nearly four centuries, the Ottoman sultans dwelt amid the secret splendors of Topkapi Palace. Access to the Grand Seraglio–which served as the empire’s administrative, legislative, and judicial center and an academy of fine arts, as well as the ruler’s home–was jealously guarded, even after the sultans ceased to reside there in the mid-nineteenth century. […]
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