Happy Michaelmas Day! Last year I participated in a blog hop to celebrate the release of volume 2 of Castles, Customs and Kings: True Tales by English Historical Fiction Authors, edited by Debra Brown and Sue Millard. Participating blogs in this hop chose a custom or tradition from the past to highlight. Michaelmas in Medieval BritainThe…

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We have quite the smorgasbord on English Historical Fiction Authors (EHFA) this week – Adventure Seekers – Women Explorers of the Victorian EraBy Lizzy Drake Historical re-enacting: where fun and history meetby Jacqueline Reiter The Herbal in England: A Brief Historyby Margaret Porter Commodore John Barry – Father of the United States Navyby Arthur Russell…

Meet a young man named Prince John and follow on his “adventures” in Ireland. Travel further back to Anglo-Saxon England to a time of thegn, ealdorman, and gesith. Watch the Howard family’s rise to power in Tudor England. Take a peek inside the medieval apothecary. Meet not one, but two formidable women, and more. This week on English…

A fascinating look at the history leading up to the Battle of Agincourt on October 25, 1415… “We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;For he to-day that sheds his blood with meShall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,This day shall gentle his condition;And gentlemen in England now-a-bedShall think themselves accurs’d they…