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Music, Tragedy and Turmoil – Fascinating Facts about Historic Beverley – my favourite Yorkshire town.

Music, Tragedy and Turmoil – Fascinating Facts about Historic Beverley – my favourite Yorkshire town.

A traffic snarl-up in the centre of York last summer led to a spur-of-the-moment decision to abandon a trip to the East Coast and instead to head for one of my favourite places, historic Beverley. Each time I’ve visited, I’ve

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Journal of a North Country Lock-down

Journal of a North Country Lock-down

Journal of a North Country Lock-down. Autumn is well under way, Winter is knocking on our doors – what a strange and frightening year it has turned out to be – with the dreaded Coronavirus rearing its monstrous head at

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A Hint of History – Meet the Young Henry VIII & Catherine of Aragon

A Hint of History – Meet the Young Henry VIII & Catherine of Aragon

During the long weeks of Lockdown, I often walked the footpaths that run through the deer park and woods surrounding Fountains Abbey.  The abbey itself was closed to visitors but being a local, I know where the public footpaths are

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My interview on Romance Author, Elizabeth N Harris’s ‘Helping Indie Authors’ page.

My interview on Romance Author, Elizabeth N Harris’s ‘Helping Indie Authors’ page.

A little while ago, I was delighted to be asked and agreed to do an interview on Elizabeth N Harris’s website – and today she  featured me on her ‘Helping Indie Authors‘ Blog as her author of the week. Elizabeth

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A Chorus of Seven – newly published

A Chorus of Seven – newly published

This year we, ‘The Scriveners,’ a group of seven authors, celebrate seven years together.  We were established in May 2013, in one of the smallest and most charming Cathedral cities in North Yorkshire, as part of a new branch of

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Stanley’s Spring Chronicle

Stanley’s Spring Chronicle

Hello there, I’ve not been here for a while, so I thought I’d give you a quick update on what I’ve been up to since I last wrote a post.  After I helped with her end-of-Winter tidy-up in the garden,

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Yorkist Stories – in aid of Medecins Sans Frontieres

Yorkist Stories – in aid of Medecins Sans Frontieres

‘Yorkist Stories’ a fabulous collection of stories has just been published on Amazon and is about the men and women who found themselves either by birth, marriage or fate, on the Yorkist side of the Wars of the Roses.  The

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Knaresborough’s less famous Medieval Gems

Knaresborough’s less famous Medieval Gems

Just before Covid19 locked us all down, I went to meet a friend for our regular coffee date in one of my favourite North Yorkshire towns, Knaresborough, which is only a short drive from where I live.   Finding myself

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Flooding and the re-discovery of a historical gem

Flooding and the re-discovery of a historical gem

The the floods of last month, forced me to take an alternative route to our local supermarket in Ripon. As I entered the city over the ancient North Bridge, I spotted a building that I had last visited many years

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Time Travel – A Lovely Fantasy?

Time Travel – A Lovely Fantasy?

An observation by a reader of Renaissance – The Rise and Fall of a King, that, as well as being historical and paranormal fiction, it was also a time-travel story, (King Richard’s soul is taken into the 21st century) got

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