Scribbling in the margins
Musings on the Historical Novel and life as it happens...
Sunday, 25 March 2012
She Stoops to Conquer at The National Theatre
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Hayward Gallery from The National Theatre terrace She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith is one of those plays I always thought I h...
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Saturday, 17 March 2012
Early Medieval Crafts- crosses and ornamental work
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An interesting late seventh century Anglo-Saxon burial was, only last week, unearthed in Trumpington, a village near Cambridge. This early S...
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Sunday, 4 March 2012
Charms and Anglo-Saxon Medicine
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When I came to research Early English medicine for The Handfasted Wife I found that there was no shortage of medical texts in the corpus of...
Sunday, 26 February 2012
The Mystery of Buildings in the Eleventh Century
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The Handfasted Wife is my historical fiction in progress. It is about Edith Swanneck, the handfasted wife of Harold Godwin. In this novel lo...
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Sunday, 19 February 2012
Winter In Amsterdam
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Two weekends ago, Amsterdam, a most sophisticated European city, halted as snow fell and the canals froze over. On Friday all was hushed, t...
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Sunday, 29 January 2012
An Eye for Fashion, Photography by Norman Parkinson 1954-1964
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Last weekend I took a stroll into the past. I was delighted to receive an invitation from our friend Angela Williams to attend the launch of...
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