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• "The Most Extraordinary Person of the Age"

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  By Nancy Bilyeau It was the spring of 1810. Ordinarily, the death in London of an 81-year-old French émigré of aristocratic birth who'd...

• Lady Mary Wroth, Author and Courtier

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   By Lauren Gilbert Lady Mary Wroth c 1620 Born Mary Sidney, she was the daughter of Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester...

• Unwanted Pregnancies in the Middle Ages

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  by Jeri Westerson We’ve read about some pretty bold women in the Middle Ages; Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen Elizabeth, Kathrine Swynford. They...

• History for a New Year

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   by Debra Brown 2022 Greetings! The EHFA Blog will be bringing you occasional new posts once again. We are just organizing, and we...

• An Amiable Wife

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   By Lauren Gilbert Portrait of Anne Law, nee' Towry, by John Linnell As a female, I cannot help being interested in the lives...

• Behind the Scenes of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'

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  by Nancy Bilyeau It may well be the most beloved Christmas story ever written. Charles Dickens' novella, originally titled Christmas Carol. In...

• “Good fences make good neighbours”: Enclosure in Georgian England

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  By Elizabeth Grant A lawn sweeping down to a stream, expanses of undulating turf dotted with clumps of trees rising to a wooded skyline, a bridge...

• Quaker Women in the Seventeenth Century

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   By Maren Halvorsen The image of the Quakeress, from the 18th century on, is the very picture of decorum: a woman dressed in gray, solemn,...

• Finding Rosa Mingaye, Cumbrian Artist

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  By Dr John Little Like all English historical fiction authors my writing deals with a mixture of reality and truth, of actual and dreams; of...

• Hangings and Gibbeting

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  By Donna Scott Death by hanging was used as a form of capital punishment in England as early as the fifth century. Other methods of execution...

• The London Monster

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  By Donna Scott Almost everyone has heard of Jack the Ripper, the villain who wandered the streets of London in 1888, killing prostitutes in the...

• Elizabeth I: The Final Days of the Great Queen

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  by Nancy Bilyeau On Wednesday, March 18, 1603, as the defeated Hugh O’Neill, rebel leader, made his preparations to surrender in Ireland, Queen...