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1180: the King of England held the Duchies & Counties in red My work-in-progress KNIGHTS TO QUEEN takes place in the year 1202. John is Kin...

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Fraying Skeins by Nancy Jardine About the book... Escape In Paradise Evasion 1870 Scotland Fleeing from Peterhead, Margaret Law makes Aber...

I don't get to travel across the Atlantic as often as I would like, so I am revisiting Lincoln today through this post. I could close my eye...

The King of England and the president of France this week visited the British Museum to view the Bayeux Tapestry, which is on display in the UK for the first time in nearly 1,000 years.

Joanna, dowager queen of Sicily, countess of Toulouse, died on 4 September 1199. She would have been 34 in October. Because she accompanied ...

"Instead of ensuring our troops had enough food, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth focused on their testosterone levels," writes Laura McTaggart. "When asked about shortages, he didn’t express concern...

In upholding an election disclosure law, the Arizona Supreme Court departed from the U.S. Supreme Court's framework for evaluating free speech claims.

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

A skeleton unearthed in Scotland likely belongs to a soldier struck by a high-speed projectile during Edward I's 1304 siege of Stirling Castle. The man suffered more than 160 fractures

Queen Anna by Tony Riches A crown won in the eye of a storm. A queen who refuses to be broken... Princess Anna of Denmark sails for Scotland...

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A blog about pirates, 1066, King Arthur, history, mysteries, writing and general chit-chat interesting bits and pieces

Website changes. Welcome to my new site. The basics are live, but I still have some blog-related work to finish. It may not be as fancy as ...

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About the Book As Hun hordes and Germanic tribes maraud through Imperial lands, two legendary men – Attila the Hun and the “Last of the Romans” General Flavius Aetius find their fortunes entangled with the chaos. Flavius Aetius, a noble Roman son, is an outsider in a savage land. He has been banished, given as hostage to the barbaric Huns and sent to the edge of the world.