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Eustace Chapuys Inside the Tudor Court by Lauren Mackay

Olga Hughes August 13, 2013

The King means it to be kept secret till Whitsuntide; but everybody begins already to murmur by suspicion, and several...

C S Hughes August 12, 2013

var·let /ˈvärlət/ 1. A man or boy acting as a menial servant 2. A knight’s page 3. A...

Olga Hughes August 12, 2013

It is a good thing for us that historical researcher Natalie Grueninger and historian/historical fiction author Sarah Morris did not...

C S Hughes August 7, 2013

History nerds, they loved the TV show The Tudors, but hated its innacuracies. They swoon over rough headed James Frain,...

C S Hughes July 2, 2013

No, not in some arcane ritual imploring Anubis to turn back the twelve hours of the night to re-incarnate a...

C S Hughes May 20, 2013

The term vitamin was derived from ‘vitamine,’ a compound word coined in 1912 by the Polish biochemist Kazimierz Funk, when...

C S Hughes April 21, 2013

Holy Roman Emperor from 1765 to 1790 and ruler of the Habsburg dominions from 1780 to 1790. Here he is...