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Tudor: The Family Story – Legacy with Leanda de Lisle

September 13, 2013

The four surviving children of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York all had a crown in their future, but it is Henry VIII, the spare heir, that became one of the most infamous Kings in English history. His desperate... Read More...

Tudor: The Family Story – The Rise of a Dynasty with Leanda de Lisle

Olga Hughes

September 12, 2013

History, Interviews

The Tudor dynasty began with a fairy tale - a love match between a beautiful young widowed Queen and a handsome Welsh squire. No one could have imagined that the scandalous marriage between the Queen and the se... Read More...

A New Chapter in Middle-Earth: Exclusive Interview with Hobbit Artist Jemima Catlin

Olga Hughes

September 2, 2013

Books, Interviews

On September 12th Harper Collins will release the first new illustrated edition of The Hobbit for more than 15 years. Artist Jemima Catlin has created more than 150 colour illustrations in pencil, ink and water... Read More...

In the Shadow of the Throne: Thomas and George Boleyn with Lauren Mackay

Olga Hughes

August 26, 2013

History, Interviews

Thomas Boleyn's Funeral Brass For centuries the black-eyed stare and mysterious smile of Anne Boleyn has captured our imaginations. It is her all-encompassing legacy that we associate with the Boleyns, one ... Read More...

Royal Babies: A History of Birth, Death and Destiny with Amy Licence

Olga Hughes

August 22, 2013

History, Interviews

Royal Babies - A History is the story of twenty-five births, from the arrival of Princess Matilda in 1066, whose claim to the throne tore England apart in the years of the Anarchy, to the reign of the Windsors ... Read More...

The Inn at the Crossroads : Recipes from Game of Thrones with Chelsea Monroe-Cassel

Olga Hughes

August 19, 2013

Game of Thrones, Interviews

"There was much more than she’d asked for: hot bread, butter and honey and blackberry preserves, a rasher of bacon and a soft-boiled egg, a wedge of cheese, a pot of mint tea" When Chelsea and Sariann start... Read More...

My lute be still, for I have done : George Boleyn with Clare Cherry

Olga Hughes

August 15, 2013

History, Interviews

Blickling Hall, Norfolk - The birthplace of George Boleyn George Boleyn was an important man in the Tudor court, yet he spent centuries in relative obscurity. The husband of an infamous wife, brother of a c... Read More...

Eustace Chapuys Inside the Tudor Court by Lauren Mackay

Olga Hughes

August 13, 2013

History, Interviews

The King means it to be kept secret till Whitsuntide; but everybody begins already to murmur by suspicion, and several affirm that long before the death of the other there was some arrangement which sounds ill ... Read More...

Tracing the Footsteps of Anne Boleyn with Natalie Grueninger and Sarah Morris

Olga Hughes

August 12, 2013

History, Interviews

It is a good thing for us that historical researcher Natalie Grueninger and historian/historical fiction author Sarah Morris did not live in Tudor times where correspondence and travel took weeks on horseba... Read More...

The Real Game of Thrones – The History Behind the Hit Series

Olga Hughes

July 24, 2013

Interviews

The runaway success of HBO's Game of Thrones may have surprised the critics, but George R.R Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire has been gathering loyal fans for almost seventeen years. While Westeros is based o... Read More...