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Book review: Brags and Boasts: Propaganda in the Year of the Armada
Bertrand T. Whitehead’s Brags and Boasts: Propaganda in the Year of the Armada is one of the most intriguing and delightful history books I’ve ever read. If you want an varied, insightful, and lively...
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Chasing Francis Bacon around the winding stair
Nicolas Hilliard. Portrait of Francis Bacon (at 17), 1578. London, National Portrait Gallery. Used by permission. The philosopher Francis Bacon (b. 1561 – d. 1626) is the protagonist of my historical...
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Victorian: At the theatre
Yes, this is another post full of pictures but no, it’s not because I’m lazy! (Although I am often very lazy.) I set a deadline for my current project to keep me working apace and then things...
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Not quite a countess: Lady Elizabeth Russell
This is a short biography of one my favorite Elizabethans, Elizabeth Cooke Hoby Russell. She was the youngest sister of Francis Bacon’s mother. This post is derived chiefly from Chris Laoutaris’s...
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The Court of Wards
Robert Cecil presiding over the Court of Wards I can’t remember if I decided one of my Francis Bacon mystery series characters would become an orphan before or after I learned about the Court of Wards....
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