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200 years ago, in August 1822, George IV visited Scotland, the first ruling monarch to do so since 1651.
@CraigMaggie looks at the celebrations, ceremonies - and farce - of his three-week jaunt for Historia https://t.co/SxYavYSz6S
#Edinburgh #ScottishHistory #Georgians
An early collection of fairy tales was described as "impossible to read without vomiting even on an empty stomach.”
The stories included... Cinderella. What was going on? @jubberstravels, author of The Fairy Tellers, explains:
https://t.co/agFqVtUT6D
#FolkloreThursday
Fairy tales are timeless and universal. How could we attach them to specific storytellers?
Yet, as Nicholas Jubber (@jubberstravels) explains, we owe many versions we know to individual collectors, and some of their lives are as intriguing as their stories https://t.co/UoXadqvZrs
In #medieval England and France a king's personal relationships influenced politics.
@CathHanley, author of Two Houses, Two Kingdoms, shows what this meant for one grandmother, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and her choice for the next Queen of France https://t.co/IdUpIygbSn
@YaleBooks
There were many powerful early #medieval female rulers, but few records of them exist.
Two 6th-century Frankish queens are an exception: Fredegund and Brunhild. Shelley Puhak, author of Dark Queens, explains in #Historia: https://t.co/5LgLPwWut0
#History #WomensHistory
Although this was over 100 years ago, he still remembers the look of the ‘cocoa soup’ in his small tin bowl. When I asked if it tasted good, he diplomatically replied: “Let’s just say, nobody threw it away."
@claremulley writes in #Historia https://t.co/FXi9wUhVe3
@savechildrenuk
Six-year-old Erich Karl was rescued from starving in Germany in 1919 when Save the Children fed him 'cocoa soup'.
Author @claremulley tells #Historia about how an unexpected message put her in touch with Erich, just weeks before he died at 108 https://t.co/FXi9wUhVe3
#WWI
"Sprinkle some of [your research] in here and there as almost inadvertent detail. The reader shouldn’t notice you doing it."
@mickfinlay2, author of Arrowood and the Thames Corpses, has plenty of tips for aspiring #histfic writers https://t.co/cVDUPxS8Je
#amwriting #HWACrowns21
From 'court dwarf' to Queen's friend: @franquinn's novel, The Smallest Man, was inspired by the relationship between Jeffrey Hudson and Charles I's wife, Henrietta Maria. Find out more at https://t.co/VEIq2Z4zIO
#histfic #newbooks
From 'court dwarf' to Queen's friend: @franquinn's novel, The Smallest Man, was inspired by the relationship between Jeffrey Hudson and Charles I's wife, Henrietta Maria. https://t.co/VEIq2Z4zIO
#histfic #newbooks