“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.”
Oooh. I’m being given fascinating videos today :o) This one is a STUNNER for me. I got to know Somerset House quite well. By 1625, it was given over to Marie de Rohan as temporary accommodation when she escorted Henriette Marie to her new husband, Charles I Stuart, in England. By then the building had […]
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I write Historical Fiction. Something that I love and I’m going back to. The Hidden History Project has ceased to exist. I am No Longer a #Truther #AltHistorian #FeedingStation I WILL write History. MY WAY. My History is Full of Real People with Real Emotions and Real Experiences :o) Done with the Faketoobers. Done with […]
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O Giddy Aunt. This is my favourite love to hate story. If you read the original by Dumas or the multiple “mystery solved” books or even watch the film below ….. ….No. I retract watch the film below. Apart from watching the brilliant comedies of Irons, Malkovich, Depardieu, Byrne and Hugh Laurie, this film is […]
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MY fave restaurant in Paris. Right round the corner and about a minutes walk from the Place Vendôme, Been there several times. When you treat them with courtesy and respect, the waiters are wonderful. One night the place was full, so me and my partner-in-crime sat outside at a table on the pavement. Being chatted […]
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Vaux-le-Vicomte There is a phrase that I do NOT like – “Mandela Effect.” It’s beyond stupid but there is definitely a systematic scrubbing of history going on in “internet-land” Right NOW! Things that I knew that I knew but are no longer available online include the chateau above and the book below. Sometime late in […]
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Well. So. As I’ve been saying forever now – certain people are only too happy to stalk and steal from here. Yesterday’s video with May and Hammond playing with Lego produced Lego mentions in the usual yukky places. What I loved most about that video was the moment when James May was asked the question…”Who […]
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From day 1 this website has been mine own day-by-day, In Real Life StoryBoard. I had a set of projects to do. And – right from the outset – I admitted that I had NO IDEA how it would all fit together. But I KNEW that it would. I am a writer who has spent […]
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Within a few days of opening this website I wrote three (off-the-cuff, from the heart) articles about writing HisFic. GB 4th Aug 2018 : HISTORICAL FICTION: RESEARCH & WRITING – EPISODE 1 GB 5th Aug 2018 : HISTORICAL FICTION: RESEARCH & WRITING – EPISODE 2 And then – to compound this truthful GB atrocity – […]
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I am totally in love with this series. And the way the presenter presents each show. His enthusiasm is infectious :o) I might have a very different view on the “timeline” but that doesn’t stop my enjoyment…not least because I always learn something new! The scene with him in the LongBoat wearing the Viking Horned […]
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Nope. I’ve not read a single George A Romero book – or watched one of these “franchised” filums. I just live with the vibe every day. Unfortunately :o( Why are so many of us today surrounded by the LivingDead? What is so attractive about a born Hater? I am NO psychologist but I SEE these […]
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I don’t think that I have ever truly revealed this before but… … I chose the image for my novel with great deliberation after learning about this major ART controversy decades ago. Diego Velázquez painting – And the ART vs HISTORY collision came from – I feel that this is a portrait of Marie. She WAS […]
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Louis de Bourbon, Comte de Soissons. The video below just came up in my yt recommended feed. Aha, thunked I. I KNOW that name. Soissons. Let me set the scene for the scene above (?) Richelieu and Louis XIII are in a world of hurt. Louis’ younger brother, Gaston has gone rebel and his second […]
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Hidden History Research 