I have never liked this piece of advice to writers. Sometimes you just need to tell. It can be something small or trivial that you don’t w...

The 14th Century ends quite neatly with the usurpation of the English throne by Henry Bolingbroke, after forcing his cousin, Richard ll to a...

    The Middle Ages are having a bit of a moment, at least in the UK. This is a boon for me, as I am writing a "Plantagenet novel"...

  Hans Holbein the Younger, Self-portrait Think of Henry Vlll and what picture floats into yoir mind? Or Thomas Cromwell, or Thomas More? Th...

    You might know Christina Hardyment from her books of popular sociology ( Dream Babies; The Future of the Family; From Mangle to Microwav...

  Most of us in this group, since it started in 2011, have been writers of historical fiction. We’ve had “straight” historians, like John Gu...