Footnotes
College professors over-emphasize the need for footnote, especially those in the history department; however, this does not apply to Alison Weir for any of her histories of the British Royals. How many other authors in her genre like Jane Dunn, George Hibbert, and David Starkey have pages upon pages devoted to identifying their source materials? They have plenty, plus they do not alter the quotations from Early Modern English because they know how to use brackets to clarify antiquated vocabulary. But no, Alison Weir has like one page listing her sources, and how I shudder at her slandering of the misunderstood Richard III. She may discard the footnotes to make her work more consumable to the masses, but I disdain such slipshod work because I heart the footnote.