This was my contribution to the Historical Writers’ Forum Summer 2020 Blog Hop – the theme was Momentous Events and this was a big one:…
Writer of Grants and Historical Fiction
Tag: On This Day in History
You have to hand it to Charles V – the man made so much more use of travel than his contemporaries. Yes, he had to…
This was where the trap snapped shut on Anne Boleyn. Up until now, everything had been quite secret – this was the first public manifestation…
Katherine Parr was a remarkable woman who actually published three books – two translations and then her own work. This first book, called Psalms or…
In 1558, Mary was sixteen years old. Shortly after Francis turned fourteen (the age of majority in France), they moved forward with the marriage. The…
This was huge. This was the point at which Henry could never turn back. He had told Catherine he did not consider their marriage valid…
This Act, which claimed to be the way to reform monastic life in England, was actually the first step in what was to become its…
Elizabeth spent her entire life refusing proposals – and her very first experience shows that she mastered the art early. Of course she had a…
This would have been such a difficult trip for poor Kitty Howard. After Parliament passed the Act of Attainder against her, officials came to get…
Yeah, I know that the first Thanksgiving was not until 1621, after the last of the Tudors (Elizabeth) had died – but it was within…
