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International Trade between Medieval England and Iceland
Guest post by Toni Mount In my latest Seb Foxley medieval murder mystery, The Colour of Lies, set in London in the 1470s, the trouble begins with the theft of three exceptionally valuable items from a...
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One Final Charge – Please Sign the Petition
What if you could save a 534-year-old piece of history? Well, you can. Sign the Petition Imagine there was a delicate, fragile, but beautifully preserved medieval jewel. It’s yours to enjoy whenever...
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Eleanor the Crusader
My next book – due for release in October, all being well – is about Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. They were one of Europe’s most fabulous power couples, ruling lands that spread from the North...
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Author Interview with Toni Mount
Toni Mount’s new novel The Colour of Shadows, the eighth instalment of her brilliant Seb Foxley Mysteries, is release tomorrow, 1 September 2020. At last, this year has a bit of good news! Toni has...
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Richard III Movie News
I hope this will help to put some minds at ease. Steve Coogan There has been an explosion of interest in the announcement made by Steve Coogan last week that he is due to start filming a movie about...
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Princes in the Tower Documentary
Yikes!! The fantastic History Hit have released the documentary we did on the #PrincesInTheTower and #RichardIII. I’m somewhere bouncing between excited, terrified, proud, nervous, anticipating bad...
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I’m planning to do a series of talks online using Crowdcast. This year has seen all of my in person speaking engagements cancelled, so I thought I’d try to find a way around it. Engaging with...
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The More I Read
A paper by Professor Tim Thornton of the University of Huddersfield, first published on 28 December 2020 and available here, has reached the national press, for example here, with claims that it has...
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Richard III and the Fall of the Brandon Men – Guest Post by Sarah Bryson
The Brandon men, father Sir William Brandon and his three sons, William, Robert and Thomas, had been loyal servants to King Edward IV. The king died on 9th April 1483 and his successor was his...
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Gone Medieval in The National Archives
This weekend’s episode of the Gone Medieval podcast from History Hit is a peek behind the scenes at The National Archives with Principal Medieval Records Specialist (might as well read kid in a sweet...
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