Archive for Oktober 2015

Taxes

Jo Beverley here talking about taxation. I find that taxes aren't mentioned much in historical romances, but they've been around fo...

In my new novel, Jane Austen Lives Again, Jane is brought back to life in 1925 and has to get a job. Her doctor finds her a position as a g...

Hi, I am Joana, and I would like to start with a big ‘Thank You’ to Jane Odiwe and Amanda Grange for inviting me to contribute to Historica...

The Earl of Mar While everyone is commemorating and celebrating the victory of 1815 at Waterloo, there’s another event that should be rememb...

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Jean Plaidy- even now the name conjures up warm, happy memories. Her novels were the first grown-up books I read as a teenager, in common, I...

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I'm delighted to tell you all that despite the fact that the weather is still mild, that Halloween and Bonfire Night have yet to come, t...

It was reported in the weekend papers that HMS Victory, Admiral Lord Nelson’s flagship, has had a historically accurate repaint and is now p...

Recipe: how to write that scene you’ve been putting off for ages. Every now and then I come up against what I call the Scene of Doom. It’s a...

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I love autumn, so much so that I have just republished one of my early Melinda Hammond books, Autumn Bride , with a fresh new cover! This...