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The depth is in the detail…

What with one thing and another, I come across a fair few number of young historians and writers in my daily rounds…and novelists and aspiring novelists and historical authors and all that…and I read a...

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Yes, I’m ranting…

Yes, I am ranting.  Rant, rant, rant.  And I’ll tell you why.  Because of the internet.  Because it makes me crazy and because so many misstatements of fact, so many bare-faced lies, and so much...

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Brummell and the Drury-Lane Ague…

Recently, a thing–as some will know–really got up my nose.  Which, after I’d come down off the wall, got me to pondering what it was that had so enflamed my ire?  And I, at last, in the small hours of...

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A word or two about the British monarchy…

One of the things that I kept sensing during the various discussions engendered by my last blog about the Regency was at root a thing about the monarchy. It’s something in the way some non-Brits write...

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The inimitable Georgette Heyer…

It would seem I’ve been procrastinating…but that’s not actually the case. What is the case is that I’ve got so much on my plate that any multi-tasking capabilities I may have possessed have run for the...

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Daily Life ~ Through the Prism of The Great War

This is one of those blog posts I’ve been avoiding writing for some time now.  Like for well over a year. Chiefly because writing it will mean that I might have to get up off my sorry backside and go...

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Why things aren’t always clear-cut…

There are a lot of armchair historians out there these days…which, don’t get me wrong, I think is a good thing. For one thing, it may mean that the publishers who seem to have given up on publishing...

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The sheer delight of historical slang…

I am by nature a perfectionist.  (I know, I know, the fastest way to drive yourself crazy.) I am also, again by a twist of nature, a stickler for detail.  (Yes, that’s right, the second most direct...

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My Journey with Jane Austen…

Over the last little while, I have got to know a rather splendid person, one I’ve come to admire immensely.  Her name is Sue Pomeroy and she’s the director of a film-to-be about Jane Austen… You know,...

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This isn’t usual for self…

But I shall try it anyway. The thing is, in the last few days I’ve done an interview, which if I’m honest I actually truly enjoyed!  And I kind of wished to share that. And not only but also, I’ve done...

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