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The Broken Compass

Mathew Lyons

History, books & wonder

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Re-imagining Elizabethan London

I have lived in London most of my life, and one of the pleasures for me in researching and writing The Favourite, an exploration of the relationship between Elizabeth I and Walter Ralegh, was that so much of their story is also a London sto...

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Review: A Twist in the Tail: How the Humble Anchovy Flavoured Western Cuisine by Christopher Beckman

To the physician Tobias Venner, in his Via recta ad vitam longam of 1620, they were ‘Anchovas, the famous meat of drunkards’, only good ‘to commend a cup of wine to the pallat, and… therefore chiefly profitable for Vintners’. No surprise, t...

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The happiest day that ever he spent: Sir Walter Ralegh stands trial for treason

It is a curious fact that when Sir Walter Ralegh was finally executed – on 29 October 1618 – he had been legally dead for 15 years. Even by 17th-century standards, that was unusual. But then, not many people face the death penalty twice in ...

2 months ago
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Review: Pure Wit: The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish by Francesca Peacock

“All I desire is fame,” wrote Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, in the preface to her first book, a collection of poetry, in 1653. “Fame is nothing but a great noise… therefore I wish my book may set a-work every tongue.” As a state...

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  • Mathew Lyons

    Writer. Historian. FRHistS. Recent work: History Today, The Spectator, Engelsberg Ideas, Slightly Foxed. Author: The Favourite, Impossible Journeys, There & Back Again.

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