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The Bayeux Tapestry and its backstories
First, a confession: this is not what I set out to write. I had intended to write a straightforward review of The Story of the Bayeux Tapestry: Unravelling the Norman Conquest by David Musgrove and Michael Lewis. But Musgrove and Lewis’s ac...
The writer’s bookshelf: Rachel Morley
Rachel Morley is Director of the Friends of Friendless Churches, a charity dedicated to the rescue and restoration of abandoned churches. Her first book, Church Crawling: The Secret Lives and Hidden Stories of England’s Churches, was publis...
Bad choices and dangerous friends: the fugitive promise of George Gascoigne
As I posted the other day in a Note, I’ve been reading George Gascoigne’s The Spoyle of Antwerpe for a History Today piece. I like Gascoigne a lot. He’s such a complex figure – his gifts are evident, but equally evident are the reasons he f...
The writer’s bookshelf: Amy Jeffs
Eight questions about writers, books, and reading…
Amy Jeffs is a writer and illustrator. She is the author of five critically acclaimed books including Storyland: A New Mythology for Britain; Saints: Medieval Legends of Heroes, Humans and...
Microhistories #18: a 19th-century serial killer
The Swiss nurse who killed with sweetness
It wasn’t until June 1868, when 24-year-old Marie-Catherine Fritzgès fell ill at the Pension Desarzens in Geneva, that the authorities acted. It was much too late.
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