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A Place of Greater Safety
From the moment I learned about it in secondary school, I’ve always been strangely fascinated by the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror. There was something about it that captured my imagination from the beginning: the way the leaders of the revolution became tyrannical leaders in their own way, how plans that started out good ended up collapsing to the ground in pools of blood. As with…
The House of Beaufort
In my brain, the Beauforts were always on the outskirts of the Wars of the Roses. They were another series of Thomases and Johns and Henrys to keep straight in a story already full of them. I never fully focused on them, but I have heard Nathen Amin speak about The House of Beaufort and the Beaufort family in general through a variety of podcasts, documentaries and online lectures, so I was…
Crown of Blood
This is yet another book that if it weren’t for a book club, would’ve sat on my bookshelves for probably years. I’m glad I’ve spread out into discovering other historical figures and not staying in my Elizabeth I/Anne Boleyn corner – even though it’s still my favourite place to be. There are so many fascinating women in history and the more I pay attention to their stories, the more I feel I…
The Amazing Readathon Week One
The Amazing Readathon is a readathon hosted by Bri from Four Paws and a Book and co-hosted by many others in the BookTube and Bookstagram community. This one is based on the reality TV show The Amazing Race and it’s about spending the month of June travelling through a portal to get to different worlds. There are prompts and ways you can get bonus points (LGBTQ+ author and/or book rep, team…
Truth Endures
In honour of the anniversary of the execution of Anne Boleyn I will always like the glimpses we get of who a person really was whether that’s through letters, journals, etc. It’s so hard to get to this, to get to the true version of anyone in the 16th century, but in particular the women because their stories are the hidden stories of history. This is also why I like historical fiction. It gives…
Thorns, Lust, and Glory
For the last year or so, I’ve been trying to search out the stories of unknown and lesser known women from history whether that’s through books, blogs, podcasts, etc., but that doesn’t mean I don’t still get excited about new books from favourite authors or about my favourite historical figures. This was one of those and I was looking forward to it. The thing about being history obsessed is that…
Death at SeaWorld
In honour of every whale across the globe who has died in captivity and the Empty the Tanks events that are taking place this weekend (10-11 May 2025) across the world. Note: I have been anti-cap (anti-captivity) since 2015. There will be no pro-cap conversation in this blog post. Also note that this book was written in the 2000s and published in 2011, so Tilikum’s death, anything related to the…
Shakespeare and the Countess
This is one of those books that I started, loved and then stepped reading at least a year ago for no particular reason. I love Shakespeare, I’ve performed Shakespeare, I’ve helped out on profession Shakespeare productions. I even work for a theatre company that largely performs Shakespeare. I also love Tudor and women’s history, so a book with so many of my favourite aspects of history was right…
Essex Dogs
I have never made it a secret that Dan Jones is one of my favourite authors/historians. He’s an autobuy author for me at this point and I’m obsessed with historical fiction, so it was a no brainer that I was going to get a copy of this one. Even though it took a while to get around to it. I was always going to be excited to dive in and see the version of the fourteenth century Jones created.…
New on Substack
What’s been happening on my Substack in 2025? I once again did a post on my reading experience of the 2024 Barnes & Noble prize winners. Click here to read that. And then there are now three episodes out for my new series Keep It or Gift It. It’s an effort to get through my backlog of physical books and ebooks that have been hanging around for far too long. I’ve taken inspiration from some of…
Henry V
I have never made it a secret that Dan Jones is one of my favourite authors/historians. He’s an autobuy author for me at this point, so it was a no brainer that I was going to get a copy of his latest release. The exciting part about the timing was that my trip to England in September 2024 overlapped with the UK book tour, so I’ve now actually met him and had a bit of a chat which is always a…
Margaret of Anjou
Margaret of Anjou (also known as Marguerite d’Anjou) was born on 23 or 24 March 1430 to Rene, Count of Anjou and Isabelle, heiress of the Duke of Lorraine. It’s debated where Margaret spent her early years, but it’s likely was either with her grandmother, Yolande of Aragon at Saumur in the Loire Valley or with Isabelle in southern Italy where Rene was fighting to claim the Kingdom of…
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Plain Bad Heroines
While not officially a part of episode two of Keep It or Gift It (my new series that will be going up monthly on Substack throughout 2025; you can read episode one here), reading this is contributing to the goal of that series: to make a dent in my frankly ridiculous physical and Kindle TBR. Every time I’ve seen this one on my shelf, I think: I want to read that. I even took the tall, heavy,…
The Thistle and the Rose
As much as I pride myself on searching out the stories of unknown and lesser known women from history, Margaret Tudor is not a figure I knew much beyond the basics and the places where her life overlaps that of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. There’s always been a part of me that has had an itch to learn more about the mother and sisters of Henry VIII, so maybe this is the beginning of that…
Keep It or Gift It
For 2025, I’m going to start a new blog project in an effort to get through my backlog of books. I’ve taken inspiration from some of my favourite BookTubers for this series. Becca from Becca and the Books, Mel from Mel Lenore Reads, Cassidy from CoverswithCassidy, Steph from Steph Loves and Gavin from Gavin Reads It All have all done various versions of this and I’m excited to join them. Here’s…
Clytemnestra
It’s early to be making this call, but I think this might end up on a favourites list by the end of the year. One could easily write off Clytemnestra as another Greek mythology retelling. But here’s the thing about me and the recent boom in Greek mythology retellings: I’m kind of living for it. How each of these women who take centre stage are so different, but are each showing us…