This is unrelated to everything else in this post, but fuck you, random historian on this documentary, Katheryn Howard wasn't a bimbo. She was a child. Fuck you sideways ( Read more... )

Alison Weir is one of my very favorite historians. I do not at all recommend reading her historical fiction for many and varied reasons, but her straight history is great. Well-researched, well backed up, and she frequently has some pretty interesting new theories to throw in the mix to make her books even more fun to read. She specializes in Tudor ( Read more... )

An Incomplete List of Things Which I Am Grateful For, In No Particular Order ( Read more... )

Since I am awake FAR too early:

What are you currently reading?Disease, Mary Dobson. Yes, this appears on a lot of my other ones. I picked it up again because I hadn't got to the lifestyle diseases yet ( Read more... )

What have you recently finished reading?

The Invention of Murder, by Judith Flanders.
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