It won’t have escaped your notice that the 1st April is a day traditionally given over to playing tricks on friends and family. Interestingly, in the first half of the 17th Century, it seems to have been unknown in the British Isles. There are no references to anything related to such pranks connected with AprilContinue reading “Who was the original April Fool?”
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Mistress of the Mortlake Hospital for Wandering Philosophers
Jane Fromond is a fascinating figure in history.We know intimate things about her that we know about no other woman of the era. Scholarly scientific analysis has been made of the record we have about the timing of her periods, which her husband, Dr John Dee, recorded in his diary (he was seeking to knowContinue reading “Mistress of the Mortlake Hospital for Wandering Philosophers”
The Fugitive’s Sword
The Fugitive’s Sword is set in the turbulent years of the 1620s when all of Europe was engulfed in what would become the Thirty Years’ War. In England, an increasingly ailing King James strove to keep his kingdoms out of the conflagration… Theobalds House, Hertfordshire September 1624 King James stood, sweltering, by the blue marbleContinue reading “The Fugitive’s Sword”
Eleanor Swift-Hook 