Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Regency Halloween

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Halloween as we know it today was not really a holiday during the Regency. On October 31, the Celts celebrated Samhain, a harvest festival...
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Monday, October 10, 2011

Guest Susanna Kearsley--Dangerous Loyalties: The Jacobites in Cornwall

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Linda Banche here. My guest today is Susanna Kearsley and her knock-your-socks-off time travel back to 1715 Cornwall, The Rose Garden . Here...
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Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Medieval Dance

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In writing The Tapestry Shop , I researched medieval dance, because one of the scenes is a dance scene. Most of our information about mediev...
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Saturday, October 1, 2011

Regency Historical, or Regency make-believe?

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In my on-line writing group for Regency Writers, some of us were bemoaning the fact that so many novels labeled historicals are historic...
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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

The Orrery

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An orrery is a mechanical model of the solar system. Although orreries date from the time of the Greeks, British clock makers George Graham ...
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Friday, September 16, 2011

Guest Elizabeth Chadwick: Medieval Pregnancy and Childbirth

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Linda Banche here. My guest today is Elizabeth Chadwick and her medieval historical novel, Lady of the English , set in 12th century Englan...
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Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Guest Beth Trissel: The French Revolution

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Linda Banche here. Today my guest is fellow Wild Rose Press author, Beth Trissel. Beth's newest story is Into the Lion’s Heart , a novel...
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