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Tinney Sue Heath

@tinneyheath.bsky.social
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Author of historical fiction set in medieval Italy. Enthusiastic amateur performer of medieval and early Renaissance music. tinneyheath.com

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Lucy Pick @lucykpick.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Launch of The Queen’s Companion will be July 8, but here’s a taste of page one. ⏳📚💙 ⌛️📚💙 #crusades #historicalfiction #eleanorofaquitaine
Book cover The Queen’s Companion Page one of The Queen’s Companion
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Lucy Pick @lucykpick.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Cover Reveal! THE QUEEN’S COMPANION When Lady Aude encounters Eleanor of Aquitaine on her way to the Holy Land, the two women’s stories weave through the history of the crusades and the political landscape of Flanders Coming July 1, 2025 #eleanorofaquitaine #crusades #historicalfiction #booksky 📚💙
Book cover for historical novel The Queen’s Companion by Lucy Pick. A very annoyed young woman against the backdrop of a medieval map.
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Tinney Sue Heath @tinneyheath.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Some interesting books here. books.bookfunnel.com/summertimere...
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Summertime and the Reading is Easy!
Searching for your next favorite story? Look no further! These bestselling authors have teamed up to offer a delightful selection of new books. Available for a limited time.
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Tinney Sue Heath @tinneyheath.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Looks like I put the wrong link in my previous post. This one should work: books.bookfunnel.com/summertimere...
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Summertime and the Reading is Easy!
Searching for your next favorite story? Look no further! These bestselling authors have teamed up to offer a delightful selection of new books. Available for a limited time.
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Tinney Sue Heath @tinneyheath.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
This promo includes some really interesting books. (And mine are lurking among them.) Take a look - you might find something you'd love to read!
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Tinney Sue Heath @tinneyheath.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
I have a new post up on Substack. I really need to remember to mention those here... tinneysueheath.substack.com/p/a-medieval...
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A Medieval Labor Dispute
In my last newsletter, which was about medieval Italian papermaking, I mentioned that this time I would tell you a little about some Italian papermakers who were working far from home.
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Tinney Sue Heath @tinneyheath.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
New Substack up, part 1 of 2. This one is about Corso Donati's bombastic return from exile in 1301. open.substack.com/pub/tinneysu...
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The Return, Part 1
He’s back.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Let’s talk about resistance after a conqueror takes power. Specifically let’s talk about this bendy yellow building, and what it shows us about the moment the Florentine Republic finally fell to its kleptocratic/proto-capitalist banking-fortune Medici conquerors 1/?
Photograph of a building in Florence. A tall thin stone section rises up, from street level several stories. About the level of the second story, a yellow section sticks out from the outside of it, awkwardly wrapping around the outside of the stone part, supported by elegant sticky-outy triangular struts. The yellow section has several small circular windows, much too small for a human to climb through, barely large enough for a chubby cat.
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Tinney Sue Heath @tinneyheath.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
I have another Medieval Italian People newsletter up on Substack, this one about Ravenna Donati. No wonder the poor woman wanted to take refuge in a convent! tinneysueheath.substack.com/p/ravenna-do...
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Ravenna Donati
and her often-interrupted life
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Tinney Sue Heath @tinneyheath.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
I have a newsletter up on Substack today, about some musical aspects of our recent trip to Bologna. Enjoy!
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Music in Bologna
I hope you have all recovered from the holidays, whatever and however you celebrate.
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Tinney Sue Heath @tinneyheath.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
My newsletter, up on Substack as of today, is about our recent visit to the Palazzo Datini in Prato, Italy. I'm working on a book about the family that lived there at the turn of the 15th century, so this was an adventure for me. tinneysueheath.substack.com/p/the-house-...
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The House that Francesco Built
This is it.
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Tinney Sue Heath @tinneyheath.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
books.bookfunnel.com/SailintotheP... Some interesting historical novels here, including mine. (Well, I think mine are interesting, anyway! They certainly kept me busy for a long time.)
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Sail into the Past
Searching for your next favorite story? Look no further! These bestselling authors have teamed up to offer a delightful selection of new books. Available for a limited time.
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Tinney Sue Heath @tinneyheath.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I've been cooking all day. The last recipe, for pumpkin mousse, told me how long it was going to take, and then ended with "Ten minutes to chill." That sounded like a good idea, so here I am on Bluesky.
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Scilicet - History of Knowledge @scilicetblog.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Is it sometimes best not to know? In this next visit of our archive, @guyfassler.bsky.social walks us through ignorance on the streets of medieval Bologna #MedievalHistory #Bologna #ItalianHistory #LegalHistory scilicet.org.uk/is-it-someti...
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Is it sometimes best not to know? Ignorance on the streets of medieval Bologna | Scilicet
Knowledge is great, but for some people of fourteenth-century Bologna the best option was to say 'dunno' to the authorities.
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Tinney Sue Heath @tinneyheath.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
It's the feast day of #SaintCecilia, the patron saint of music. But she's holding her organetto upside down! I play one of those, and I can tell you, if those soft lead pipes splat on the ground, the instrument is never going to sound the same. Look, they're already slipping out...
Painting showing St. Cecilia gazing toward heaven while holding her portative organ upside down.
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Tinney Sue Heath @tinneyheath.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Three pictures from Gubbio, my favorite town in Italy. We were there in October, returning to a place we loved the first time around. It's just as beautiful now.
Photo of street scene in the medieval Italian city GubbioPalazzo dei Consoli, Gubbio, ItalyLooking through open archway over the rooftops of Gubbio
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Tinney Sue Heath @tinneyheath.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Hi - I'm new to Bluesky (as are so many!). I'm the author of two historical novels set in medieval Italy, with more to come, and I play various medieval and Renaissance musical instruments. Just back from a month in Italy, including this beautiful city:
Photo of the ducal palace in Urbino, Italy, taken from across city rooftops.
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