Scribbling in the margins

Summer is a great time for book reading especially if you are on holiday and have that precious time for relaxing on a veranda somewhere pe...

I have long been fascinated by medieval wall paintings whether they are in tiny churches in Greece where I have spent much of the last year...

Eleventh century women did care about their appearance. Of course they did! Cosmetics were not as horrific as those used in Tudor times, su...

The Handfasted Wife, a novel about Edith Swan-Neck, common-law wife and beloved of Harold Godwinson, opens at Westminster during Christmas ...

This year I am fortunate enough to have found a writing escape tucked away in the Greek Mani not too far from Kardamyli where the travel wr...

Psalters, early medieval calendars, and The Domesday Book yield fascinating information about life on a medieval estate. For instance, a sc...

The Handfasted Wife is Edith Swan-Neck, the common-law wife of Harold II who was defeated by William of Normandy at the Battle of Hastings....