Once upon a time, there was a woman in the 17th Century who loved her husband very, very much. Her name was Ann Fanshawe. Come join me at the English Historical Fiction Authors Blog today when I share with you the writings of Ann Fanshawe and her enduring love for her husband Richard. Click here to read more…
The English Civil War was a time of divided loyalties, where brother fought against brother and neighbours faced each other on a bloody field. But there was one Royalist family that was united in their staunch loyalty to the King: The Comptons. Today, I’m telling the story of the Comptons at the English Historical Authors Blog. Don’t be shy. Pop on over. Check out my other articles that were featured in English Historical Authors Blog: The Royalist Highwayman The Battle of Hamilton The Fifth Monarchists
Originally posted on The Crabchurch Conspiracy:
370 years ago on this night, in February 1645, Dorset lost a hero ….. A man so true, so courageous, that his enemies genuinely lived in mortal fear of him. Major Francis Sydenham, brother of the governor of Weymouth & Melcombe, Colonel William Sydenham, was at rest in his billet in Weymouth when one of two audacious Royalist attacks upon the main forts of the parliamentarian garrison took place at the Chapel Fort of St Nicholas, an old 14th century church which the ‘Roundheads had fortified and which strategically controlled the towns and quaysides…
Today is the anniversary of the execution of King Charles I. I have ambivalent thoughts about this. To a degree, I feel some sentimentality, though this is fuelled by the romance of Alexandre Dumas’s novel Twenty Years After when two of the musketeers, Athos and Aramis, were sent to rescue the King. It was my first introduction to the English Civil War, and the scene made a lasting impression on me—blood dripping between the gaps in the scaffold, landing on Athos who had been moments away from spiriting the King away. But that was fiction. On one hand, Charles I was stubborn…
Once upon a time, in a world turned upside down, a fanatical Puritan faction known as the Fifth Monarchists tried to create a godly society… Today I’m visiting the English Historical Fiction Authors with the Fifth Monarchists. Join me in a trip to 1651 England. It’s not all daffodils and roses.
Cryssa Bazos 