Tag: history
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Three for the Month (August 2021)
After another month off in my series, and back I am with my reading suggestions in what is a semi-hiatus summer. I took on…
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Three for the Month (June 2021)
Welcome back to my reading suggestion series, after one month’s break. Not that I haven’t read anything in May (quite the opposite) but all…
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Three for the Month (April 2021)
Again, a late summary of this month’s reading, due to work. Oh well, the pandemic certainly changed the way people work and the personal…
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Three for the Month (March 2021)
This time the reading offer for the month arrives almost at the end of the month itself. A good illustration of a period incredibly…
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Three for the Month (February 2021)
This month I am late for my usual book presentation, and the reason is, as you might imagine, what’s happening on Mars, which is…
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Three for the Month (January 2021)
This time it was relatively easy to select the three featured books for the blog: they’re the ones I am reading just now, and…
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Three for the Month (December 2020)
For the last reading list of 2020, I have three very different suggestions. The only thing they have in common is that all of…
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Three for the Months (May 2020)
It looks not so long since I’ve done April’s post, but, thanks to the lockdown, I’ve been reading a lot, so I’m ready for…
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Three for the Month (February 2020)
I didn’t even notice I was doing this post on St Valentine Day, probably because I paid no attention to the celebration (sorry, Eros),…
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Three for the Month (January 2020)
Thanks to Christmas (time + gift cards), I had the opportunity to go on a shopping spree in my favourite places: bookshops and manga…
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Three for the Month (December 2019)
After Medieval history in November (rewarded by S2 of Knightfall just landed on Netflix, something that makes me cringe but I can’t void watching…
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Three for the Month (November 2019)
November is traditionally the SF month in the blogging community but this year, due to job reasons, is going for me to be Medieval…
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Three for the Month (October 2019)
This month I am slightly late to announce my three selected books, but the good thing is that I have already started reading them.…
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Magazines that publish historical fiction
If you believed (as I did) that historical fiction is by nature more the domain of long novels than short stories (or flash fiction),…
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Writing about (historical) witchcraft.
It is with a lot of pleasure that I can finally give the announcement. My article “The Inquisitor’s creatures: the historical roots of the…
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Mary Queen of Scots (2018). A review.
I was since the beginning not that keen to watch this movie, for a fairly good reason. Having researched the historical period and the…
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The Friday Face-Off: Tudor Period
I first heard about The Friday Face-Off following the blog Books, Bones & Buffy (hello, Tammy!), but originally this feature was created by Books by…
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Teaser Tuesday (11 December)
Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted at The Purple Booker. Anyone can play along by doing the following: • Grab your current read•…
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Knightfall (2017-). Historical fantasy at its best and worst.
I had just finished watching the first series of Knightfall (now on Netflix) when I heard History Channel renewed it for a second season.…
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Astronomical Clocks in Modern History
Let’s admit it: astronomical clocks are probably one of the most charming types of historical monument, and they’ve had their halcyon days during Modern…
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WWW Wednesday: 5 September 2018
The WWW Wednesday meme was formerly hosted by MizB at A Daily Rhythm and revived by Sam @ Taking on a World of Words. It’s a great way to do a weekly…
