Scribbling in the margins

This month, September, sees the anniversary of the first two battles of the Norman Invasion of 1066, Fulford Gate and Stamford Bridge. The ...

Anglo-Saxon women played an important role in the years following The Conquest by providing the opportunity for intermarriage into the land...

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...