Sunday, 1 February 2015

Discovering Padua, Venice and Verona in Winter

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Venice on a chill January day with blue skies and sunshine is a pleasanter experience than Venice in mid-summer when it is crowded, hot and...
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Wednesday, 31 December 2014

Great Reads from 2014

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Without doubt my greatest love, second maybe to writing novels, is reading books. During 2014 I read many great novels, a variety of genres...
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Saturday, 15 November 2014

Was Waterloo entirely a British Victory?

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Waterloo is a much written about battle. My great, great grandfather's regiment, The Scot's Greys, fought at Waterloo. Author Tom W...
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Sunday, 26 October 2014

Revisiting Battle Abbey 1066/ 2014

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Early this month I revisited Battle Abbey for the first re enactment of the Battle of Hastings in several years. It was a superb event and ...
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Saturday, 4 October 2014

St Nicholas, a Greek Byzantine Church at Chora

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Many of the Byzantine churches in the Greek Mani were  built during the tenth, eleventh and twelfth centuries. Over the past two years I ha...
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Monday, 15 September 2014

The Swan's Song in Medieval Literature

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Swans feature as an image in both The Handfasted Wife and in The Swan-Daughter, novels set at the time of The Norman Conquest of the eleve...
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Wednesday, 6 August 2014

Legends and History- Tristram and Iseult and Robin Hood

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The Swan-Daughter, the second novel in The Daughters of Hastings series was published in July as an e book by Accent Press and it will ...
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