“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.”
If you’ve watched the trail today….? And moved from the Lancashire Witch Trials to Maid Marion…? Theme -age : James I was Scottish. Born of a Catholic mother but raised a staunch Scottish Presbyterian (like MY DAD) He wrote (re-wrote) The Bible (KJV – so they say) and also a book called Daemonologie. Daemonologie was […]
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Just to SLEDGEHAMMER my point home into Numb Skulls. Who was Robin Hood’s right hand man? Little John? What was the name of Andronicus I Comnenus’ brother? WHO WAS John the Forerunner? FFS! TOO MANY JOHNs to be a Co-INKY-DINK!!!!
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GB 7th May 2019 : Those Pesky Stray Arrows Part 2 of an 11 part GB Hidden History Tour of the British Isles. And THIS is what I half watched this morning! A perfect example of History being put in the Washing Machine, churned around, rinsed and spun (?)
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I’ve just half watched something that set me on one of those (for me, usual) research quests. And I came across something very unexpected! A Gest of Robyn Hode Not only was I sent back to Middle English again, but also to Wentbridge, Yorkshire. Way, no way, cried I. Robin came from Nottingham. Sherwood Forest. […]
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This is a real life (!?)Jacobean Revenge Tragedy wrought by a 9 year old girl.
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A GB Short Sharp Lesson in Jacobean (James I Stuart) REVENGE Tragedy. Enjoy :o)
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Yeh. Yeh. I hear y’all shouting…GB’s talking about Brave New World! WRONG. Only an Obsessive, Compulsive Researcher of HISTORY (esp. 17th C history) knows about THIS book by Aldous. Grey Eminence It informed a Massive part of Marie’s story. And gave me the nickname that l’éminence grise gave to Richelieu. And just how much power […]
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When you research an Historical Novel you have to go backwards first to the previous generation and then forward, to the next generation, before you can possibly begin to understand the generation about whom you are writing. Margot always fascinated me. Although she had no role in the book. Marguerite of Valois I even bought […]
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…said my brain! Oh. Really? A week and a day later and I’ve got to page 21 of the book I started reading in a car park last week. It’s already covered in sticky notes – the last one on Page 20 says Question THIS Assumption. Stupid brain. The author is brilliant but I disagree […]
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A Did You Know? post. I call RUBBISH/FAKE/FONEY history – but what do I know ? ? ? TY, KB :o)
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Lee Miller is in my Top 5 list of Amazing Women! LEE MILLER In the 1920’s she was a “model” and some of her most famous pictures were taken by … MAN RAY #ImageAbove As well as being photographed by him, Lee was taught how to take photos (by him.) Her later career was as […]
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‘I think I am destined to be the object of the folly of madmen‘ – Marie de Rohan 1600-1679 This is my FAVE quote by Marie. It comes from a letter that she wrote to one of her friends – about Cardinal Richelieu, who had executed one of her closest friends, imprisoned several more, led […]
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