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Why a nun who lived a thousand years ago is sti...

One of the things I love about history is how the past keeps coming back to us.  Hildegard of Bingen was a medieval German abbess who lived about 900 years ago....

Why a nun who lived a thousand years ago is sti...

One of the things I love about history is how the past keeps coming back to us.  Hildegard of Bingen was a medieval German abbess who lived about 900 years ago....

Cordoba: The 11th Century’s Most Cosmopolitan City

If you were looking for the hippest place to be in 11th century Europe, you wouldn’t go to Paris.  Or London, which was an outpost badgered by centuries of Viking...

Cordoba: The 11th Century’s Most Cosmopolitan City

If you were looking for the hippest place to be in 11th century Europe, you wouldn’t go to Paris.  Or London, which was an outpost badgered by centuries of Viking...

Episode 41: Benjamin Redding

So this week I talked about Benjamin Redding about Boats! Benjamin Redding is a final year PhD candidate in history at The University of Warwick. His research project – under...

Episode 41: Benjamin Redding

So this week I talked about Benjamin Redding about Boats! Benjamin Redding is a final year PhD candidate in history at The University of Warwick. His research project – under...

The Self Publishing Journey: Learning about Pre...

For the past 8-ish months I’ve been on a Writing and Publishing Journey where I’ve been taking all the things I’ve seen in my time in LibraryLand, am mixing it...

The Self Publishing Journey: Learning about Pre...

For the past 8-ish months I’ve been on a Writing and Publishing Journey where I’ve been taking all the things I’ve seen in my time in LibraryLand, am mixing it...

Early Music Saturday: Madrigals of Madness from...

I have said it before, and I’ll say it again – I find the best music via the Millennium of Music show, which is on both Sirius and NPR.  I...

Early Music Saturday: Madrigals of Madness from...

I have said it before, and I’ll say it again – I find the best music via the Millennium of Music show, which is on both Sirius and NPR.  I...

How Scotland arrived in Westminster

This week I’ve been re-reading Alison Weir’s The Lost Tudor Princess, Alison Weir’s book about Margaret Douglas, Henry VIII’s niece via his sister Margaret, who married the King of Scotland.  When her...

How Scotland arrived in Westminster

This week I’ve been re-reading Alison Weir’s The Lost Tudor Princess, Alison Weir’s book about Margaret Douglas, Henry VIII’s niece via his sister Margaret, who married the King of Scotland.  When her...