Medieval Woman: Blogging with Historical Novelist Susan Higginbotham

Three letters by Frances Grey, Marchioness of Dorset and later Duchess of Suffolk, have been preserved in printed sources. Mary Anne Everett...

In August 1550, Frances Grey, Marchioness of Dorset, made one of the worst mistakes of her life. She went hunting, leaving her daughter Jane...

On May 21, 1471, Edward IV and his forces, having defeated their Lancastrian opponents, rode triumphantly into London. With them was a very ...

I'm delighted to feature a guest post from D. L. Bogdan, author of Secrets of the Tudor Court and Rivals in the Tudor Court , her lates...

I got an e-mail the other day from Stephanie Decavallas, who did this beautiful drawing (in two color schemes) of Eleanor de Clare, heroine ...

While checking something for a future blog post, I looked into David Baldwin's biography of Elizabeth Woodville and found this discussio...

Did you really think that this blog was going to let the royal nuptials between Prince William and Kate Middleton pass without notice? First...

On April 24, 1509, just three days after Henry VII died, “yerely in the mornyng the morow after Saint George day by thavis of the king and h...

I'm happy to welcome Karen Clark to the blog today to post about her book, The Daisy and the Bear , which is already gracing my own Kind...

Little did I know until this morning that the great Romantic poet William Wordsworth himself had a particular interest in the legend of Henr...

A Rogue’s Gallery By Nan Hawthorne The Crusade of 1101 surely has a permanent place in the Crusades Hall of Infamy. The three bodies that s...

I'm very pleased to be participating in this giveaway, because I have a special connection to autism: my 20-year-old son was diagnosed w...

For the most part, those who found themselves facing the block in Tudor England went to their deaths gracefully, abiding by certain conventi...

I'm delighted to be hosting a guest post today by Christy English, author of To Be Queen: A Novel of the Early Life of Eleanor of Aquita...

As regular readers of this blog know, I am fascinated with medieval genealogy and with the Wars of the Roses and have continued to research ...

Thanks to all who entered Margaret's birthday giveaway! The winners (who have been notified) were pressedposies and Shannon. Happy readi...

As some of you might know, there's a school of thought which believes that Edward IV was poisoned and that the Woodvilles (of course) we...