The past is a different country which requires a great deal of research and imaginative effort to recreate in its multilayered richness o...

I was looking for something to write about for today’s blog post, and decided I’d try and find Thomas Tusser’s Book of Good Husbandry, th...

The Flammarion engraving, 1888, artist unknown “Medieval people thought the world was flat.”  No they didn’t, not educated people a...

I know we’ve all got plenty of these. All historical novelists must have. Fantastic snippets of material we’d LOVE to fit in to the book, ...