Tweeting all things family & social history related for @PenSwordBooks, including our ever-expanding Tracing Your Ancestors series & the P&S History imprint.
Yorkshire, UK
Joined March 2010
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Happy Monday! Coming soon 😍
#Victorian #VictorianEra #History #VictorianEngland #Dickens #19thCentury
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History book of the day
The Black Death in England: Journal of the Plague Years in the Fourteenth Century
#ad @penswordbooks @PSHistory
link.amazon/B046cFu7v
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Lucy died about now in October 1658 & it's wonderful that Charles II's Secret Queen can finally let her rest without James II's & Macpherson's cloud. Finding Lucy's last resting place was not easy & this is 95% probably it.
Out now from @penswordbooks @PSHistory
#LucyTuesday
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The moment has arrived; I have my copies of Lucy. Let's have a quick look inside Charles II's Secret Queen from @penswordbooks @PSHistory
The treasonous truth is out. I hope you enjoy Lucy.
@17thCenturyLady #17thCentury #SecretQueen #KingCharlesII #RestorationHistory
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Now Lucy's secret is out, for my penultimate #LucyTuesday I'll be sharing her last resting place. It's in the book, but this Tuesday's short story will make it real & hopefully lay her to rest.
Charles II's Secret Queen from @penswordbooks @PSHistory
@17thCenturyLady
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#OTD in 1216: 810 years ago.
In one of his last acts before his death later that night, King John appointed Nicholaa de la Haye, the hereditary castellan of Lincoln Castle, as Sheriff of Lincolnshire in her own right.
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@PSHistory @LincolnCastle @LincolnMedieval
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Today I'm in Sherborne for the @BALHNews Rebellion event & I've just signed my first copy of Charles II's Secret Queen.
Thank you @penswordbooks & the amazing @17thCenturyLady for your perfect foreword.
#StuartSaturday – at Sherborne, England
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Lucy has arrived a little earlier than expected, so I need to thank @17thCenturyLady for her wonderful foreword to Charles II's Secret Queen & keeping Lucy's secret for so long. Andrea you are amazing writer & historian. I'll say more tomorrow with my hat on! @penswordbooks – at Merville-Franceville-Plage, France
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Looking forward to catching up with my fellow bloggers on Saturday to discuss the ins and outs - and highs and lows - of history blogging.
Do join us!
#womeninhistory
@HistoriaHWA
@penswordbooks @PSHistory
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Hooray, I love a blog takeover! 🤩 Looking forward to catching up on some posts as we approach the 31st! 💀👻🪦🧙🏼♀️🐈⬛🧟♀️🧛♂️
🎃 The Halloween takeover has begun on the P&S Blog! 👻
We’re exploring the darker side of history, starting with ‘The Category ‘A’ Escapers’ by author Dick Kirby.
Read the first post here ➡️ buff.ly/RNklp0m
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New article: a look at the young women who were the princesses of England from 1066 onwards, including the often overlooked daughters of King Harold II
@PSHistory @penswordbooks @HistoriaHWA
#womeninhistory
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Chatting with Rebecca is always such great fun, I tend to forget we're recording!
@penswordbooks @PSHistory
#medievalwomen #hastings960
I'm always excited to shine a light on women in history, and today @Thehistorybits and I are looking at Matilda of Flanders - the wife of William the Conqueror - and also their daughters.
youtu.be/77QwG_ZM6-c
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#tudorsdynasty #womeninhistory
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#OTD in 1066: The most famous date in English history.
The Battle of Hastings saw the death of Harold II at #Hastings and the start of the #NormanConquest
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The Wives and Family of King Harold II historytheinterestingbits.co… via @Thehistorybits
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Today is the 489th anniversary of the birth of Prince Edward, the son of Henry VIII and Queen Jane Seymour. Labour lasted 2 days and 3 nights and she must have felt immense joy and relief when she held him. Celebrations erupted. @penswordbooks @PSHistory
#queenjane #tudorhistory
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Plus - New page on my website: more on Dickens and Hendon, the odious Reverend Williams, and suitably for the Halloween season, a spot of burking and beheading: theresamusgrove.wordpress.co…
📰 In the press: Please, sir, can I have a walk? Dickens biographer finds likely inspiration for Oliver Twist 📰
Charles Dickens and his Hidden Family History by @BrokenBarnet is featured in this article from The Guardian ➡️ buff.ly/Pb3NqmO
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Matilda of Flanders and Edith Swan-neck lived very different lives. One was a duchess, the other was the handfasted wife of Harold II. Matilda's fate was to be queen of England. Edith's was to quietly disappear
#bayeuxtapestry #battle1066
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OOH ! Book Review: “Princesses of the Later Middle Ages: Royal Daughters of the Plantagenets” by Sharon Bennett Connolly.
"I loved learning about the daughters of the later Plantagenet kings" ☺️☺️☺️
@PSHistory @penswordbooks @HistoriaHWA
#womeninhistory
adventuresofatudornerd.com/2…
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There is a new post over on the blog of @PSHistory
The Top Ten Infectious Diseases of the Victorian Era. A little something I rustled up after writing A Guide to Victorian Love 😊 buff.ly/n1oynL2
#Victorian #victorianera #britishhistory #19thC
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My latest book looks at royal daughters from the reign of Henry III to the fall of Richard III. Their lives were not always sunshine and roses but they were incredible, strong women: queens, patronesses, diplomats and mothers.
#NewBook 📖 - Princesses of the Later Middle Ages by @Thehistorybits
👑 Princesses of the Later Middle Ages explores the lives of England’s royal daughters, revealing their roles as diplomats, ambassadors and vital links between kingdoms.
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🗓️#OTD 1664. Prince Rupert boards the Henrietta and prepares to lead the fleet against the Dutch.
All did not go to plan - the parson on board suffered a breakdown of sorts, and according to Rupert a 'spirit of mutiny' overcame the man.
He babbled at night and abused the captain of the vessel. The prince attempted to restrain his impatience (because the parson had been recommended by the Archbishop of Canterbury).
Eventually, though an exchange of parsons occurred, Rupert's fortunes did not improve. An accident on board resulted in the prince sustaining a severe head injury. It required trepanning - a hole drilled through his skull - and left him incapacitated.
Rupert described how he was 'destitute of alle but gods merci'.
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