Eleanor de Clare (3 October 1292 – 30 June 1337) was a granddaughter to Edward I of England, joint heiress to the vast de Clare estates and the wife of the powerful, infamous Hugh Despenser the Younger. Eleanor was born in Caerphilly castle in south Wales. Her father was Gilbert ‘the Red’ de […]
You’re probably cold right now. You’ve probably taken to carrying things around with you certainly wouldn’t in the summer: gloves, earmuffs, packets of tissues. It probably takes you a full three minutes to de-layer and re-layer whenever you enter or leave a building. It’s dark when you get up, dark by the time you […]
What happens when the one who got away comes back? Rachel and Ben were best friends at university but with Rachel’s steady long distance boyfriend and gorgeous Ben’s endless conveyer belt of stunning girlfriends, they never quite made it past the platonic stage… Ten years later, Rachel is still living in Manchester, […]
If you’ve ever been in the West End of an evening and seen a saturnine and stately black Routemaster bus glide past, you’ll already be aware of the ‘Necrobus’, the vehicle for the London Ghost Bus Tour. The Nectrobus is a reclaimed 19th century funeral bus, or ‘carcass coach’, as it would have been known […]
Catherine Walters, also known as “Skittles” (13 June 1839 – 4 August 1920) was a renowned trendsetter and media darling; she was the last great Victorian courtesan, famed for her natural beauty, her discretion and for being less flamboyant and much more classy than her numerous contemporaries. Born just a few years into […]
A love story with a twist, Tracey Garvis Graves’ On The Island is a US word-of-mouth success story to rival Fifty Shades of Grey, with 1500 5* reader reviews online (and counting!) and sales taking it top 10 in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Amazon.com bestseller lists. Film rights have been […]
Grace O’Malley (Gráinne Ní Mháille), c. 1530 – c. 1603, was Queen of Umaill, chieftain of the Ó Máille clan and a pirate (yes, a pirate) of Tudor Ireland. She is more commonly known by her nickname Granuaile. Granuaile was born around 1530, the only legitimate child of Eoghan Dubhdara Ó Máille – […]
Cartimandua (ruled c. 43 – 69) was a queen of the Brigantes, a Celtic people in what is now the ‘neck’ of England. A contemporary of the rebellious – and much more famous – Boudica, she is the only queen that the Romans recognised in her own right, referring to her as ‘regina’ […]
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