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Living with the Anglo-Saxons
What did the early Anglo Saxons wear? Certainly not animal skins wrapped around their torsos, the popular image of ancient Britons, nor togas left over from the Roman occupation of Britain! From the...
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Living with the Anglo-Saxons
What would an Anglo-Saxon ceorl’s house look like? The image above gives you some idea, but the early Anglo-Saxons would not have a hearth and chimney like this! Nor would their walls be of stone –...
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Living with the Anglo-Saxons
What would an Anglo-Saxon village look like? The Anglo-Saxon village or settlement consisted of wooden thatched huts, ceorls’ houses, and larger timber halls for the thegns, usually single storey and...
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Living with the Anglo-Saxons (5)
What about Anglo-Saxon food and drink? Earlier in 2021 I was delighted to be asked to speak to the Leeds Symposium on Food, Drink and Health, which develops learning on these aspects of historical...
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Living with the Anglo-Saxons (6): what about the healthiness of the diet?
In the last blog, I looked at what we know about food and drink in the Anglo-Saxon period. In many ways it might seem to us today that the Anglo-Saxon diet was healthy: no sugar, no fast foods, no...
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Living with the Anglo -Saxons (7)
Anglo Saxon women: peace-weavers or shield-maidens? I was interested to catch up with Kathleen Herbert’s excellent little book “Peace-Weavers and Shield Maidens” (2013, first published in 1997) on the...
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Digging into Anglo-Saxon life
Photo by Kelly Lacy on Pexels.com I’ve been looking at Anglo-Saxon life in my series of blogs: Living with the Anglo-Saxons, covering social structures, houses, settlements, clothes, food and drink,...
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Researching for an Anglo-Saxon time-slip novel of mystery and romance
(adapted from a guest post originally written for The Magic of Wor(l)ds blog on my book tour February 2022) Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com A Shape on the Air (#1 Dr DuLac series of early medieval...
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NEWS of new arrivals in the world of mystery and romance!
I’m thrilled to share with you the news of my sequels to A Shape on the Air! The next two feature the same main protagonists, Dr Viv DuLac and Rev Rory Netherbridge, so beloved of my readers. [...
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Beautiful new covers for the Drumbeats Trilogy – but are they ‘history’?
My genre for the past few years has been (and still is, really!) decidedly historical fiction, mainly early medieval time-slip, Anglo-Saxon in particular. But my earlier novels were more modern...
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