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Storms, Spells, and the Royal Bride: Why King James VI Blamed Witchcraft for His Delayed Queen, A Guest Post by Tony Riches

We tend to look back on sixteenth-century royalty through the lens of court intrigue and strategic marriages, yet history is often shaped by moments where personal challenge meets ideology. Few episodes illustrate this better than the violent origin of Scotland’s most infamous witch hunts. In August 1589, fourteen-year-old Princess Anna of Denmark married King James VI of Scotland… Read on

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Book Review: ‘Legacy’ by John Pilkington

The Gunpowder Plot is one of those major subjects of the early Stuart era (the Jacobean period) that people tend to know about, but, in my experience, very few historical fiction works focus on the period just after that. In John Pilkington’s novel ‘Legacy’, however, we meet Robert Belstrang, a former Justice who leads a quiet life in… Read on

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