Anyone who cares about history is obsessed with dates. We locate rulers with them. We decide what's historical and what's too close ...

The first of these Welsh kings was Henry who defeated all the other kings at the Battle of Boswell and took away all their roses. After t...

I can't remember when I first became interested in the Beauforts, the children conceived by Katherine Swynford by her lover, John of G...

We're having that sort of year. Heavy showers and sunshine, sometimes both at once, which produce one of the most beautiful weather e...

On Saturday I spent the day in Bath Theatre Royal watching the Globe's Touring Company perform all three of Shakespeare's Henry the ...

The Plantagenets are the new Tudors, to paraphrase a press release for the book reviewed here and I couldn't be more pleased to hear it....

The other day I was talking to a writer friend about my current project, and she urged me to read a particular novel set in the same period,...

It was 2007, and I was whizzing along the A64 in North Yorkshire because in the novel that wasn't yet A Secret Alchemy one of my narrat...