OGMIOS – A Bit of Celtic Myth for St Paddy’s Day

OK. Off the top of my head, with no references… Ogmios is a Celtic God whose words are so sweet and alluring that his tongue is tied by multiple golden chains to the ears of all and everyone who listen to him. Not bad, GB. A+++++++ but still could do a wee bit better! Let’s […]

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John Law – The 17th Century Moneymaker

Three hundred years ago, a charismatic young gambler and man-about-town with a natural gift for mathematics fled London for the Continent. His name was John Law and he had a good reason to go, having killed a man in a duel. Living off his lucrative winnings at the gaming tables of Europe, Law became increasingly […]

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ForeShadowing

Weave a Garland of my Vows by Greta Brookes

This was inspired by Mr SitA. TY :o) I’m a WRITER. I write HISFIC novels. I’ve studied both the Art & the Craft of writing. Me, myself and I totally understand FORESHADOWING   Definition of Foreshadowing. Foreshadowing is a literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story. Foreshadowing often appears […]

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The Invisible College

In 1660 a small group of men, led by Sir Robert Moray, met in London with a secret plan to reshape the world. They were members of the ‘Invisible College’, better known today as the Freemasons Emerging from the horrors of the Civil War, Britain was a society torn apart by political difference, religious ferment […]

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29th May 2019

The VERY beginning of MY NC inspired Shakespeare debunks.   GB : Most Sacrilegious   Much to my dismay – this leads me on to…   GB : New Year’s Eve 2018 (?)   And a subject that I’ve been avoiding ever since then.   Birth by C-Section.   Oh. Poop :o(  

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Latimer

A largely unknown Hidden History FACT here for anyone named Latimer. I’ve researched the original Latimers. The TITLE not the PERSONAL NAME!!!!! They were Celtic storytellers (Oh! Bards? Ovates?) who regularly travelled to France with their old oral myths and legends.   I WILL NOT be sharing these sources but – the little known fact […]

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15th May 2019

Oh. Another self-ref from last year  ? What am I like? A Teuchter ? Greta Brookes : To Whom THIS May Concern   ‘Cos ya didna believe me this F1RST kajillion times. SHAME ON YOUSIES, aye?   P.S. Check out my NC inspired Shakespeare series of many posts. And find out WHO Macbeth might’ve/could’ve been […]

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Il Principe – Niccolò Machiavelli

Il Principe (The Prince) is a political treatise by the Florentine public servant and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. Originally called De Principatibus (About Principalities), it was written in 1513, but not published until 1532, five years after Machiavelli’s death. The treatise is not representative of the work published during his lifetime, but it is the […]

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