A while ago, I wrote a piece for The Conversation on ‘Guilty Pleasures: Reading Historical Fiction’. While the piece in itself was fun to write and allowed me to discuss favourite authors, such as C.J. Sansom, Sarah Dunant, Ariana Franklin and Toby Clements, the real joy of the article actually came from the feedback and…
The long wait for the sequel to Blood and Beauty is finally over, and oh my goodness, the wait was worth it. In the Name of the Family delivers in spades on the promises at the end of the last book for more searching into the motivations that drove the actions of Rodrigo (Pope Alexander…
This is just the kind of link and blog post I love: a quirky visualisation of how key Tudor sites in London relate to the topgraphy of the modern city. Click through and read- wonderful piece. http://londonist.com/2016/08/the-tudor-tube-map?utm_content=buffer452ea&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Few topics are as challenging and yet ultimately rewarding for writers than writing stories about the lives of medieval women. Not only was the period particularly muscular with regards to its approaches to public life, but patriarchy was pervasive to the point of occasionally obliterating traces of even the most elite women from records. Or…
For me as a Venetian art historian, this project is about as exciting as it gets. The Venice Time Machine Project in a nutshell is a Digital Humanities project which seeks to reconstruct Venice in 4D, at different moments of its history. How this is done, is best explained here, in a TED talk by…
Maybe I have #GBBO on my mind (anybody else excited about Tudor Week?), but discussions on Early Moderrn Twitter about food brought this link to mind. It’s an evaluation cookbook, which basically uses the ideas underpinning a recipe book to think about evaluation methods and techniques that might be especially suitable and appropriate for a…
Flying through 17th century LondonOpen Culture is an amazing resource for teaching and research and well worth exploring; the audio recordings are often especially amazing. Here though I have chosen a link for the blog which features in my teaching on a Tudor module. I often use historic maps in my teaching and talk about…
https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/map.htm This is a link that forms the basis of several seminars I teach on Early Modern London, on space, on urban geography, on sociological readings of space- lots of ways in which I use this link. In a nutshell, the link leads to a site which makes a high resolution, searchable and annotated…
I think the time has come to add another category to my blog: miscellaneous and useful links…. Like many other researchers and avid users of social media, I come across interesting links and resources on a daily basis, and on all too many occasions, I then promptly forget to do something with the information I…
Gabriele Neher, University of Nottingham I had better confess straight away: I love reading historical fiction. So much so that I actually recommend to my Renaissance students that they read it too. Putting fictional flesh on historical bones can teach us a lot – about storytelling and, yes, also about history. Debates about the validity…
I discovered the books of Ariana Franklin by serendipitous chance in a charity shop, and have previously blogged about her ‘Mistress of the Art of Death‘ series, and its protagonist Adelia Aguilar, feisty Sicilian anatomist, mother of illegitimate child and agent of Henry II’s. Ariana Franklin’s Aguilar is an unusually well drawn female protagonist of…
There really is something very special about working at The University of Nottingham, with its two fully established and fully operational branch campuses at Ningbo, China and Semenyih, Malaysia. I just cannot imagine any other institution where it would be possible to have the opportunity to teach museums practitioners drawn from all over China, in…
There are definite rewards to rummaging around in charity shops and stumbling across books you have never heard of. I admit it- what attracted me to Ariana Franklin’s Mistress of the Art of Death was its cover, which recalls the vellum pages of a medieval manuscript and prominently displays a detail from MS 74 G38…
One of my favourite hobbies is photography, and I especially like taking my camera with me when travelling. I have been very fortunate in recent years to have been able to travel to China as part of my work (my employer, The University of Nottingham, has a sister campus in China, at Ningbo), and these…
There are plenty of historical novels about that are dealing with the War of the Roses (let’s face it, the story sort of writes itself), but Toby Clements’ King Maker: Winter Pilgrims nevertheless stands out. Winter Pilgrims is the first part of a series ostensibly centring on Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick (1428-71), but in contrast to Conn…
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