This is a guest post by author Maggie Humm. Thanks Maggie! Amazon have classified my debut novel, Talland House, as historical fiction, but the...
Virginia Woolf, Talland House, and Historical Fiction
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Review: The Secret Messenger
Mandy Robotham's novel of the Nazi occupation of Venice—and the Venetian resistance that fought against fascism in many different ways—is an...
Abandoned Pennsylvania: Creepy and Beautiful Photography
This is a guest post from Obsidian Urbex photographer, Janine Pendleton. Thanks Janine! I am no stranger to long road trips, but this one was...
Black Panthers vs. Nazis: Meet Patton’s All-Black 761st Tank Battalion that Transformed Race Relations and Made America Better
This is a guest post from author Samuel Marquis. Thanks Samuel! In Soldiers of Freedom: The WWII Story of Patton’s Panthers and the Edelweiss...
Bardcore: Modern Melodies with Medieval Music
What do you get when you combine modern pop songs and medieval instruments and vocals? Bardcore. Hildegard von Blingin' (a name that is, in itself,...
Review: Daughter of the Reich
This review features some minor spoilers. Set in 1930s Germany, Hetty, the daughter of an SS officer, falls in love with a Jewish boy. What could...
Historybounding: the Hobby You Didn’t Know You Needed
If you're involved with any historical costuming groups on social media, you may already have heard about the fabulousness that is historybounding....
3 Incredible D-Day Deceptions
June 6, 2020 marks 76 years since D-Day, also known as Operation Neptune, also known as the Normandy landings. Probably the most famous of the major...
Review: The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir
Adorable English village? Check. Multiple points of view with interconnected stories and relationships? Check. WWII Blitz stuff? Check. Dry British...
Review: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
It would appear that author Taylor Jenkins Reid knows the exact combination to make me go from casually enjoying a book one minute to sobbing for an...
Sutton Hoo Helmet is an Iron Face of the Vendel Period
This is a guest post by Peter Harrington. Thanks Peter! Sutton Hoo is a burial hill in the English county of Suffolk. It was found at the end...
Review: To Have and to Hoax
Martha Waters, I believe, may have a direct line to my brain. In her debut novel, To Have and to Hoax, Waters managed to pluck out my favorite...
Jillianne Hamilton writes delightful historical fiction and historical romance featuring rebellious heroines and happy endings.
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