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Castles, Customs, and Kings: True Tales by English Historical Fiction Authors

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Copyright © 2013 by Debra Brown

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Cover and interior design by Masha Shubin

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Publisher: Madison Street Publishing

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Table of Contents

  
Introduction

  
Contributing Authors

  
List of Novels by Contributing Authors

  
Falling in Love with England and Its History

Roman Britain and Early Medieval Period (55 B.C.—A.D. 1000)

  
Boadicea: Warrior Queen of the Iceni Britons

  
Ancient Roman London as Destroyed by Boadicea, Britain’s Warrior Queen

  
The First Word in English

  
Degsastan: A Lost Battlefield

  
Anno Domini and the Venerable Bede

  
Monarchy: The Early Middle Ages—House of Wessex

  
Athelstan: The Secrets of a Dark Ages King

Late Medieval Period (1001-1485)

  
William Before He Was the Conqueror

  
Monarchy: William the Conqueror

  
Christmas 1065

  
Two Men, One Crown: Harold Godwinson and William of Normandy

  
The Tower of London

  
Monarchy: The Normans—William Rufus and Henry I

  
The Mysterious Death of King William the Second

  
Monarchy: The Normans—Stephen and Matilda

  
Why I Love Eleanor of Aquitaine

  
Henry II and Thomas Becket

  
Alais of France: Forgotten Princess

  
Knights Templar: The Beginning

  
A Bad Rap for Henry and Eléonore

  
Simon de Montfort and Simon de Montfort

  
An Alchemist, an Earl, and the Stupor Mundi: The Cannon and Gunpowder in 13th Century Europe, with a Nod to Tess of the D’Urbervilles

  
William Wallace, the Hero?

  
What if Edward Bruce Had Succeeded in Ireland?

  
Two Legends, Two Outlaws: Robin Hood and William Bradshaigh

  
A Brief but Very Satisfactory Wooing: Edward III and Philippa of Hainault

  
A (Possible) Page from the London Gazette: September 1331

  
The Elusive History of the Order of the Garter

  
The Plague

  
Scourge of Europe: The Religious Hysteria Created by the Black Plague

  
How Joan of Kent Became Princess of Wales

  
Alice Perrers: A Notorious Woman

  
Edward, 2nd Duke of York

  
A Royal Love Story: Richard II and Anne of Bohemia

  
Richard II and His Doubles

  
An All-Consuming Passion: The Love Affair that Changed the Course of English History

  
Bloody Deeds at Tewkesbury

  
A Short—but Heartfelt—Valentine from the Fifteenth Century

  
Richard III vs. Henry VII: Naughty or Nice?

  
Mysteries, Miracles, and Tableaux: Early Theater in England

  
Of Cameleopards and Lions: The Medieval Bestiary

  
Food for Thought: Medieval Feasts

  
Dinner as It Might Have Been at Kenilworth 760 Years Ago

  
Life in a Medieval Village

  
Medieval Bathing for Cleanliness, Health, and Sex

  
Boundaries: Medieval Women in Medieval Gardens

  
A Seer, a Prophet, or a Witch?

  
Money Lending in the Middle Ages, or You Think Your Visa Card’s Rates Are Bad?

  
King Lear’s Town: A Little History of the City of Leicester

  
Miniature Cathedrals: England’s Market Crosses

  
Relic in the Valley: St. Martin’s at Cwmiou

  
Welsh Idylls: St. Gwenog’s Church

  
Tretower Court and Castle

  
Buried Treasure: St. Mary’s in Burford

Tudor Period (1485-1603)

  
An Inconvenient Princess

  
The Worst Marriage of the 16th Century

  
For Sale: Rich Orphans—The Tudor Court of Wards

  
The Execution of Sir Thomas More

  
English Crime and Punishment: Death by Pyre—A More Seemly Death for Women?

  
Little Ease: Torture and the Tudors

  
“The Rack Seldom Stood Idle...”

  
The Will of the Prioress

  
The Last Nun

  
Our Tudor Sisters

  
The Art of Courtly Love: Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn

  
The King, the Archbishop, and the Bear

  
The Death of Henry VIII: Demolishing the Myths

  
The Birth of “Bloody Mary”

  
Elizabeth Tudor’s First Crisis: Enter Mary Queen of Scots

  
Elizabeth & Mary, Rival Queens: Leadership Lost and Won

  
Border Reivers: Kinmont Willie Armstrong

  
“Carrying Away the Booty”: Drake’s Attack on the Spanish Silver Train

  
“El Camino Real”: A Path Worn through Time

  
English Ladies-in-Waiting

  
Childbirth in Early Modern England

  
Mother Mourning: Childbed Fever in Tudor Times

  
The Truth about Halloween and Tudor England

  
Tudor Christmas Gifts

  
The Elizabethan Gardening Craze

Stuart Period (1603-1714)

  
The Three Weddings of James VI and I (but Only One Wife)

  
A Witch’s Lair Found Buried under a Mound

  
Pirate Extraordinaire and Friend to the Crown

  
General George Monck and the Siege of Dundee

  
So You Say You Want an Execution...

  
Religious Upheaval during 17th Century England

  
Prophecy and Polemic: The Earliest Quaker Women

  
The First Actresses: Nell Gwyn to Sarah Siddons

  
Secret Service, Spies, and Underhanded Dealings during the 17th Century

  
Desperate Measures in 17th Century Medicine

  
Superstitions and Bodily Health

  
The Death of King Charles II

  
Sarah and the Queen

  
Lloyd’s: Lifeblood of British Commerce and Starbucks of Its Day

  
The History of Gingerbread

  
17th Century Recipes

  
The Scent of Lavender

  
Marriage in 17th Century England

  
Fabulous Fabrics of the 17th Century

  
Party Clothes in the 17th Century

  
17th Century Garden Design for Women

  
Gossip in Early Modern England

  
What Was Old in the Olden Days?

Early Georgian Era (1715-1800)

  
Mary Delany, Artist and Personality

  
The Rise and Rise of the English Landscape Garden

  
Doggett’s Coat and Badge: The World’s Oldest Rowing Race

  
The Original Jack the Lad: Jack Sheppard, 1702-1724

  
In the Wake of James Cook

  
Right-Royal Comings and Goings at Weymouth, 1794

  
The Blue Stocking Circle

  
Robin Hood, Agincourt, and Gender Equality?: Archery in Late Georgian England

  
Elizabeth Linley Sheridan: Lady of Fantasy and Tragedy

  
Grace Dalrymple Elliott: A Very High Flyer Indeed!

  
Sir John Soane: At Home with an Eccentric Genius...or “Padre Giovanni Has Come to Visit.”

  
Child’s Play...or Is It?: Georgian Era Nursery Rhymes

  
Celebrating Burns’ Night

  
Pronunciation: Eighteenth Century Style

  
Steal a Book, Seven Years’ Hard Labor Overseas: Transportation as Punishment in the 17th-19th Centuries

  
A Shocking Catalogue of Human Depravity: Patrick Colquhoun and the Cataloging of 18th Century London Crime

  
Britain’s Cross-dressing Women

  
The Wig Business Was Big Business in 18th Century France

  
Gorgeous Georgian Metrosexuals, or How to Strut Your Metrosexual Stuff in Georgian England

  
Flip, Shrub, and Other Drinks Favored of Georgian Londoners

  
A Midnight Masquerade in 18th Century London

  
Feeling a Little Flushed, Dear? (The Invention of the Flush Toilet)

  
A Time to Reflect—on Mirrors

  
Currency in the Second Half of the 18th Century

  
Travel in the Second Half of the 18th Century, or What Would Jane Austen’s Earliest Heroes Have Packed for the Weekend?

  
Stand And Deliver...Your Tolls?: The Rise and Fall of the Turnpikes

  
Top Ten Tourist Attractions in London, 1780

  
Sir Sidney Smith and the Siege of Acre, 1799

  
Madness in Their Method: Water Therapy in Georgian and Regency Times

  
Stourhead: Painting with Nature

  
The Pursuit of the Picturesque

  
The Must-have Garden Accessories for the Rich and Richer? A Glasshouse and Pineapples!

Late Georgian and Regency Era (1800-1837)

  
The Extraordinary Clandestine Activities of a Nineteenth Century Diplomat

  
11 May 1812: The Death of a Statesman

  
London in the Early 19th Century

  
The Hole in the Wall: Regency Dancing

  
Almack’s: It’s Not Quite What You Think...

  
Dorothea Christorovna Benckendorff Lieven: Princess Lieven

  
Lady Hester Stanhope: Regency England’s Eccentric Expatriate

  
Regency Era Classified Ads

  
Libraries in Georgian and Regency England

  
Ashes, Tallow, and Turpentine: Coming Clean in the Regency Era

  
A Regency Era Lady’s Prodigious Layers of Clothing

  
The Changes in Ladies’ Fashion from 1780s to 1814: Too Much or Too Little

  
Ladies’ Slippers and Half-Boots in the Regency

  
Mr. Darcy Strips Off...

  
Unrequited Love: Jane Austen and America

  
Class Distinctions in Regency England

  
Vicars and Curates and Livings…Oh My!

  
A Glimpse of York during the Regency Era

  
Nom nom nom: Regency Style

  
Phantasmagoria: Getting Your Fright On in Late Georgian England

  
The Great Frost Fair of 1814

  
Entertainment Tonight: Regency Style

Victorian Era (1837-1901)

  
The Victorian Technological Revolution: Transportation

  
Sir Goldsworthy Gurney and His Steam Carriage

  
The Rebecca Riots

  
Fourteen Years’ Hard Labour

  
Scotland Yard and a New British Mystery

  
The Great Stink of London 1858

  
The Harlot Who Was Dickens’ Muse, or Even Greater Expectations

  
Cameos, Silhouettes, and Cartes de Visite

  
The Humble Envelope

  
Popular Pigeons and Slanderous Psittacines

  
The Poor Always Among Us

  
The Higher Education of Women in the Victorian Era

  
Flirting With Fans: A Victorian Tradition

  
Strange Victorian Remedies

  
Gertrude Jekyll

  
Battle of Isandlwana, 22 January 1879

Twentieth Century

  
Downton Abbey and the Fight for Irish Freedom

  
The Lost Houses of England

  
Ellis Island and British Immigrants to the USA

  
A Prince, a Prophet, and a Peer: Sir Samuel Hoare

  
The Men Are Away at War

Historical Tidbits Across the Ages

  
The Royal Coat of Arms

  
An Englishman and His Dog...

  
The Isle of Anglesey

  
Mottisfont: The Evolution of an English House

  
The Lost Palace of Richmond

  
Faversham, Kent

  
The Grosvenors

  
Time: A Timeline of Clocks

  
September in British History

  
Twelfth Night

  
Be My Valentine!

  
The Origins of April Fools’ Day

  
MayDay, MayDay, Mayday!

  
800 Years of Christmas in England

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