History:

The Lion in Winter:

A Game for Scholars: terrific tale featuring my favourite medieval dysfunctional couple in their Albee-esque glory.

And in non-fiction news:

How Indiana Jones invented a quote from Charlemagne: very entertaining "he never said that" rant. I empathize, though I have to say, this bit:

Charlemagne was quite a ( Read more... )

A few months ago, when the History Exchange announced itself, I looked at the conditions, saw that the minimum word count was only 500, and thought, hey, I'm busy, but I can easily do that in between stuff. If I volunteer for people I already know about, I won't even have to do research ( Read more... )