I have a wonderful little book, Seedtime & Harvest, the diary of an Essex farmer, William Barnard of Harlowbury. The book is published b...
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A Brief History of Dunking Biscuits
With the new series of the Great British Bake Off in full swing on the BBC there has already been controversy over whether or not it is appr...
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Buckingham Palace,
Elizabeth Hawksley,
heraldry,
Northern Ireland flax,
Scottish thistle,
Tudor rose,
Welsh leek,
Yvonne Holton
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The Four Flowers of Britain
Flowers are important to novelists; a young man will shyly offer a girl a rose; a child will bring a mother a posy on Mother's Day, we u...
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Sneak Preview THE DUKE & THE DEBUTANTE by Melinda Hammond
So, September is here, the summer holidays are over and we are looking forward to autumn, with those longer nights when it is lovely to cu...
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Costume evidence Rice portrait/Jane Austen,
Ellie Bennett blog-Jane Austen Portraits,
Jane Austen,
Jane Odiwe
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Costume Evidence and the Rice Portrait of Jane Austen
The first part of this post is taken from Ellie Bennett's blog on Jane Austen Portraits. Ellie has done a lot of recent research on the ...
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Derbyshire,
Dorothy Vernon,
Dovedale,
Gretna Green,
Gretna of the Peak,
Haddon Hall,
Jill Armitage,
Joana Starnes,
John Manners,
Lovers Leap,
Peak Forest,
Romantic Haunts of Derbyshire,
Winster,
Winster Hall
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If you go to Derbyshire...
If you go to Derbyshire and have time to spare, there is so much to see! There are the well-known treasures of course – Chatsworth in all it...
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Duelling Pistols
I’ve been writing a duel in my latest book, so I wanted to brush up on my research. My duel takes place in the mid 1750’s and it’s an affa...
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Benefits of a back list - Miss Peterson and the Colonel
US UK Pre-order. Out 25th August. Miss Peterson and the Colonel will be the last book from my back list to be published on Amazon. I wr...
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Ashdown House,
dolls houses,
National Trust,
Queen Mary,
Tate Baby House. Windsor Castle,
Uppark
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Inside the Dolls House
When I was a child I had the most enormous dolls house. If it had been scaled up it would have been about 3 times the size of the house I ac...
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02.18
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Elizabeth Hawksley,
Holman Hunt,
Pre-Raphaelites,
The Awakening Conscience,
Victorian mistress
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Where the Mistress Lived
This post is inspired by Elizabeth Bailey’s fascinating overall view of the Oldest Profession in Georgian Times . I thought it would be in...
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