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by Paula Lofting For those who have not read any of my earlier posts about this puzzling enigmatic woman, Ælfgyva, whose image is...

The story of the Godwinson brothers is a well-known one but there is one brother that is often overlooked as he doesn’t figure in the...

Today I am hosting the Historical Fiction Writers Summer Blog Hop in which we choose a momentous event or epoch in time. October 18th...

Thank you, Paula, for inviting me to your blog site and giving me an opportunity to offer a brief sketch of the career of one of the...

public domain Edmund Ironside died in November of 1016. He was known as the _Ironside_ for his strength and prowess in battle. There is...

Ælfgifu, or as it was sometimes spelt, Alfgyva, or even Ælfgyva as it is on the Bayeux Tapestry, must have been a popular name and one of...

In London, it was said that the streets were ‘teeming’. There were so many men, survivors of Hastings, and the armies that had been...