Happy #WorldBookDay! It feels like a good time to remind you that if you haven’t read it already, my biography of Anthony Woodville is available from all good book retailers! #WarsoftheRoses #fifteenthcentury #anthonywoodville

Thanks to Jo Romero for mentioning my man, Anthony Woodville a few times, in her chapter on Henry VII and Elizabeth of York in her latest book Tudor Power couples. Brightened my first day back at work for 2026 reading it on my lunch break. 🥰 #anthonywoodville #fifteenthcentury #tudor #historybook

It’s nearly Christmas! Do you know a history or Wars of the Roses lover? Well I have the perfect thing, my biography on Anthony Woodville, brother-in-law to Edward IV. Available through Amazon, Waterstones and other good book retailers. #anthonywoodville #WarsoftheRoses #fifteenthcentury

Illumination from the late 14th century Tacuinum Sanitatis Casanatense. The picture shows three woven bee skeps with a large number of bees swarming around them and moving in and out of the holes.

Today, I have two incomplete #fifteenthcentury recipes for making #mead from the Dorotheenkloster MS. They are interesting, but I have no way of testing them.

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#culinaryhistory #foodhistory #medievalsky #brewing

#OTD in 1483, Anthony Woodville, his nephew, Richard Grey, and Thomas Vaughan, were arrested. It’s claimed for involvement in a Woodville plot, but Anthony had met with Richard, Duke of Gloucester, alone and on friendly terms the day before. #anthonywoodville #warsoftheroses #fifteenthcentury

Book Review of Forgotten Women of the Wars of the Roses by Jo Romero I was lucky enough to have had a bit of insider knowledge about this book a long time before it was close to publication as the author, Jo Romero, is one of my friends from the history blogging cir…

Looking for some reading inspiration for #womenshistorymonth? Then look no further than Forgotten Women of the Wars of the Roses by Jo Romero. Read more about it in this #bookreview from the #voyagerofhistory archives. #warsoftheroses #fifteenthcentury wp.me/pagtWm-Gw

My interests are: Renaissance #humanism, Rome in the #fifteenthcentury, #bookhistory, #socialhistory, and #culturalhistory. I work with the sociology of intellectuals, studying their social and cultural worlds as they produced their written works: men behind their books, and their communities. 3/

This 15th Century illumination (showing the birth of the Virgin) from the Turin-Milan Hours, ms 47, is full of glorious details of domestic life.

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