On the one hand, this is just a letter from a random petitioner making a request to Thomas Cromwell – the kind of thing that…
Writer of Grants and Historical Fiction
Month: April 2018
So my original plan had been to write an On-This-Day post about the execution of the Holy Maid of Kent (Sister Elizabeth Barton, an English…
This was the day that Sir Thomas More knew that he did not have long to live. Well, in truth he would have guessed it…
Francis Walsingham was Elizabeth I’s Principal Secretary; his loss was a significant one for her. The cause of his death was said to be testicular…