When you were at school, did you enjoy your History lessons? She did but realised, soon after leaving school, that she had been taught only a minute fraction of England's history.
So she reads historical novels, finds a subject that fascinates her, then goes to her beloved library and gets hold of the 'real' books.
And with great pleasure, she found a book by Susanna Gregory, author of several Medieval England's murder mysteries.
Yippee.. What a tremendous writer.
She has created five characters upon whom she has based her historical novels.
We are reading books which feature Thomas Chaloner as the main character and they are set in the age of the Restoration.
The character, Thomas Chaloner, is fictional but his family were real. In the books he is the nephew of another Thomas Chaloner, who was an English politian, commisioner at the trial of King Charles 1st and signatory to the King's death warrant.
Gulp..
A little bit of background for those of you who did or have not studied our history. After our Civil War, King Charles 1st was tried, accused and beheaded in 1646 and his sons, Charles and James, and his very young daughter, Henrietta aged 3, fled to France.
Henrietta married Phillippe of France, brother of Louis X1V (14th) of France, aka The Sun King.
The word 'Restoration' refers to the end of the Commonwealth, when England was ruled for eleven years by the (Puritan) Parliament. Think Cromwell and Roundheads.
Charles Stuart, was invited back to England upon the death of Cromwell by his legatee and son, who had no interest in ruling England.
During the Civil War, sometimes brother had fought against brother and son against father, and so upon the time of the restoration of the monarchy, oi vey.. it became a dangerous place and a lot of families fled overseas to escape being imprisoned for their political and or religious beliefs.
But a lot of people were caught, prosecuted, (persecuted) and subsquently killed. Their deaths, sometimes, too gruesome to describe.
But reading about our city and their lives in that time, over three hundred years ago, is absolutely fascinating.
Did you know that the Thurloe's, built in the Victorian era in South Kensington, are named after John Thurloe, Cromwell's Spymaster!
Time to go and finish our book.. oh, I do love their crunchy spines but have been threatened with a dreadful fate if I 'beak' a library book.
GeeGee Parrot.
January 5th, 2015.
So she reads historical novels, finds a subject that fascinates her, then goes to her beloved library and gets hold of the 'real' books.
And with great pleasure, she found a book by Susanna Gregory, author of several Medieval England's murder mysteries.
Yippee.. What a tremendous writer.
She has created five characters upon whom she has based her historical novels.
We are reading books which feature Thomas Chaloner as the main character and they are set in the age of the Restoration.
The character, Thomas Chaloner, is fictional but his family were real. In the books he is the nephew of another Thomas Chaloner, who was an English politian, commisioner at the trial of King Charles 1st and signatory to the King's death warrant.
Gulp..
A little bit of background for those of you who did or have not studied our history. After our Civil War, King Charles 1st was tried, accused and beheaded in 1646 and his sons, Charles and James, and his very young daughter, Henrietta aged 3, fled to France.
Henrietta married Phillippe of France, brother of Louis X1V (14th) of France, aka The Sun King.
The word 'Restoration' refers to the end of the Commonwealth, when England was ruled for eleven years by the (Puritan) Parliament. Think Cromwell and Roundheads.
Charles Stuart, was invited back to England upon the death of Cromwell by his legatee and son, who had no interest in ruling England.
During the Civil War, sometimes brother had fought against brother and son against father, and so upon the time of the restoration of the monarchy, oi vey.. it became a dangerous place and a lot of families fled overseas to escape being imprisoned for their political and or religious beliefs.
But a lot of people were caught, prosecuted, (persecuted) and subsquently killed. Their deaths, sometimes, too gruesome to describe.
But reading about our city and their lives in that time, over three hundred years ago, is absolutely fascinating.
Did you know that the Thurloe's, built in the Victorian era in South Kensington, are named after John Thurloe, Cromwell's Spymaster!
Time to go and finish our book.. oh, I do love their crunchy spines but have been threatened with a dreadful fate if I 'beak' a library book.
GeeGee Parrot.
January 5th, 2015.
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