by Debra Brown
A year ago, September 23rd of 2011, a group of authors lost in yesteryear Britain launched this blog. The goals were to take you back in time with a daily historical post and a weekly historical fiction giveaway. Readers would be introduced to the authors and their work.
We feel that we have had great success. We have had nearly eighty thousand of you wonderful folks come to visit us here--for the exact number, scroll down to our little knights at the bottom of this page. We have Nearly four hundred blog followers and have had over five hundred and fifty of you join us to chat in our Facebook group. Many have joined in the fun by leaving comments on our posts, and at least one of you per week has won a book in our giveaways.
This weekend we are celebrating. We have a giveaway planned with twenty books being given away. See the separate Giveaway Post and enter the drawing by midnight Pacific Standard Time on September 23rd. Please also check the weekly giveaway for The Gilded Lily by Deborah Swift.
I am going to mention some of the highlights of our year's posts here and categorize more of them just in case you missed one. :) And tomorrow we will have a post of interesting historical anecdotes.
And now....
The post receiving the most views for the year is... (don't ask me how, really, we suspect he paid people to visit the post. Honestly, are toll roads the most interesting topic in England?) But yes, the top post of the year is by J.A. Beard, Stand and Deliver ... Your Tolls? The Rise and Fall of the Turnpikes. Maybe it was all those Olympic attenders worried about getting around the country. Congrats J.A.!
#2) Little Ease: Torture and the Tudors by Nancy Bilyeau
#3) A Glimpse of York During the Regency by Lauren Gilbert
#4) The Poor Always Amongst Us by Phillip Brown
#5) Child Labour and Pick-pockets by Marie Higgins
#6) In the Wake of James Cook by Linda Collison
#7) An Inconvenient Princess by Nancy Bilyeau
#8) A Regency-era Lady's Prodigious Layers of Clothing by Wanda Luce
#9) Top Ten tourist attractions in London, 1780 By Mike Rendell
#10) The Birth of "Bloody Mary" By Nancy Bilyeau
A special mention, too, to Gorgeous Georgian Metrosexuals — or How to strut your Metrosexual Stuff in Georgian England by Lucinda Brant, which was a ragingly popular post until it disappeared into thin air. We could not find it on the blog. For months we thought it gone forever, but Lucinda discovered that she could get to it by Google search. Huh? Well, we did some tinkering around and discovered that it had been unpublished. So we published it again, and it is back. Who knows what happened. Someone worried about that Number One spot, probably. ;)
Congrats to these authors. It seems Nancy Bilyeau ran off with the cake.
POST CATEGORIES
For reading ideas, I am categorizing some of the posts. I wish I could add all 365 of them, but time and space don't allow. And you'd get sick of it.
PLACES
A Journey to the Brontë family at Haworth by Stephanie Cowell
Boundaries: Medieval Women in Medieval Gardens by Judith Arnopp
The Tower of London by Debra Brown
The Lost Houses of England by Maggi Andersen
London in the early 19th century by M.M. Bennetts
Marshalsea Debtor's Prison by Wanda Luce
The Lost Palace of Richmond by Anita Davison
Lloyds-- Lifeblood of British Commerce and Starbucks of its Day by Linda Collison
Welsh Idylls with Judith Arnopp Part One: St Gwenog's Church
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
Smuggling in Devon by Jenna Dawlish
Old English Crime and Punishment: Death By Pyre...A More seemly Death For Women? by Teresa Thomas Bohannon
Fourteen Years Hard Labour by Prue Batten
Steal a book, seven-years' hard labor overseas: Transportation as punishment in the 17th-19th centuries by J.A. Beard
WAR AND BATTLES
Bloody Deeds at Tewkesbury by Anne O'Brien
Degsastan - a lost battlefield by Richard Denning
The West Africa Squadron by Tess St. John
'Carrying Away the Booty' - Drake's attack on the Spanish 'Silver Train' by Jenny Barden
PEOPLE
William Before He Was the Conqueror By Rosanne E. Lortz
Eleanor of Aquitaine: Mother of Kings by Christy English
Richard II and His Double by Brian Wainwright
Lady Jane Grey: Royal Tragedy - Royal Pawn by Teresa Bohannon
The Mysterious Death of King William the Second by Judith Arnopp
Alice the Bad or Alice the Good - or Alice the Quintessential Business Woman? by Anne O'Brien
Charles Brandon ~ Loyaulte me Oblige by Katherine Marcella
Adeliza of Louvain, Lady of the English: A Forgotten Queen by Elizabeth Chadwick
The Harlot Who Was Dickens’ Muse, or, Even Greater Expectations by Katherine Ashe
Two Men, One Crown by Paula Lofting
ART
Holy Grails, Bejeweled Crosses, and Beastly Aquamanilia: European Art in the 13th Century by Sherry Jones
The Royal Coat of Arms by Debra Brown
WEAPONS
The English Longbow – Available in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Video by Scott Higginbotham
LIFE
The Victorian Wedding versus My Own Wedding by Karen V. Wasylowski
Regency Era Classified Ads by Debra Brown
Mother Mourning: Childbed Fever in Tudor Times by Sandra Byrd
Celebrating Childhood Picture Books and the stories that shape us by Deborah Swift
The must-have garden accessories for the rich and richer? A glasshouse and pineapples! by M.M. Bennetts
Eloping to Scotland and the Marriage Act of 1753 by Regina Jeffers
Culpeper's Complete Herbal by Farida Mestek
History-Within-History by Grace Elliot
Downton Abbey and the Fight for Irish Freedom by Tim Vicary
The Great ‘What If’. What if Edward Bruce had succeeded in Ireland? by Arthur Russell
The Sheltons, A Typcial Knight's Family by Anne Clinard Barnhill
By Permission of Heaven - The Great Fire of London by Richard Denning
FASHION
Undergarments Revealed by Diane Scott Lewis
The Changes in Ladies' Fashion from 1780s to 1814 - Too Much or Too Little by Maggi Andersen
The Wig Business was Big Business in 18th Century France by Lucinda Brant
FOOD
Nom nom nom ~ Regency style by M.M. Bennetts
17th Century Recipes by Katherine Pym
Food and Drink in Anglo-Saxon England by Richard Denning
TRANSPORTATION
The days the world’s most powerful man, the richest man and smartest man came together by David William Wilkin
Sir Goldsworthy Gurney and His Steam Carriage by Gary Inbinder
Mrs. Benz's Wild Ride by V.R. Christensen
REGENCY TIMES
Waltzing during the English Regency? Preposterous! by David W. Wilkin
Almack's - it's not quite what you think... by M.M. Bennetts
‘Privy & Privation: A Handsome History of Health & Hygiene in Regaustenian* Times’ by Lady A~, Authoress of ‘The Bath Novels of Lady A~’ Collection.
The Regency Review, by Lady A~, Authoress of 'The Bath Novels of Lady A~' Collection
TUDOR TIMES
The Reformation and the English People by Sam Thomas
Elizabeth & Mary, Rival Queens: A Study of Leadership by Barbara Kyle
Our Tudor Sisters by Sandra Byrd
The Lady Elizabeth, Prisoner at Woodstock by Victoria Lamb
There is soooo much more. Please look around. Don't forget to check our weekly giveaways. And do come back for another year!
A year ago, September 23rd of 2011, a group of authors lost in yesteryear Britain launched this blog. The goals were to take you back in time with a daily historical post and a weekly historical fiction giveaway. Readers would be introduced to the authors and their work.
We feel that we have had great success. We have had nearly eighty thousand of you wonderful folks come to visit us here--for the exact number, scroll down to our little knights at the bottom of this page. We have Nearly four hundred blog followers and have had over five hundred and fifty of you join us to chat in our Facebook group. Many have joined in the fun by leaving comments on our posts, and at least one of you per week has won a book in our giveaways.
This weekend we are celebrating. We have a giveaway planned with twenty books being given away. See the separate Giveaway Post and enter the drawing by midnight Pacific Standard Time on September 23rd. Please also check the weekly giveaway for The Gilded Lily by Deborah Swift.
I am going to mention some of the highlights of our year's posts here and categorize more of them just in case you missed one. :) And tomorrow we will have a post of interesting historical anecdotes.
And now....
The post receiving the most views for the year is... (don't ask me how, really, we suspect he paid people to visit the post. Honestly, are toll roads the most interesting topic in England?) But yes, the top post of the year is by J.A. Beard, Stand and Deliver ... Your Tolls? The Rise and Fall of the Turnpikes. Maybe it was all those Olympic attenders worried about getting around the country. Congrats J.A.!
#2) Little Ease: Torture and the Tudors by Nancy Bilyeau
#3) A Glimpse of York During the Regency by Lauren Gilbert
#4) The Poor Always Amongst Us by Phillip Brown
#5) Child Labour and Pick-pockets by Marie Higgins
#6) In the Wake of James Cook by Linda Collison
#7) An Inconvenient Princess by Nancy Bilyeau
#8) A Regency-era Lady's Prodigious Layers of Clothing by Wanda Luce
#9) Top Ten tourist attractions in London, 1780 By Mike Rendell
#10) The Birth of "Bloody Mary" By Nancy Bilyeau
A special mention, too, to Gorgeous Georgian Metrosexuals — or How to strut your Metrosexual Stuff in Georgian England by Lucinda Brant, which was a ragingly popular post until it disappeared into thin air. We could not find it on the blog. For months we thought it gone forever, but Lucinda discovered that she could get to it by Google search. Huh? Well, we did some tinkering around and discovered that it had been unpublished. So we published it again, and it is back. Who knows what happened. Someone worried about that Number One spot, probably. ;)
Congrats to these authors. It seems Nancy Bilyeau ran off with the cake.
POST CATEGORIES
For reading ideas, I am categorizing some of the posts. I wish I could add all 365 of them, but time and space don't allow. And you'd get sick of it.
PLACES
A Journey to the Brontë family at Haworth by Stephanie Cowell
Boundaries: Medieval Women in Medieval Gardens by Judith Arnopp
The Tower of London by Debra Brown
The Lost Houses of England by Maggi Andersen
London in the early 19th century by M.M. Bennetts
Marshalsea Debtor's Prison by Wanda Luce
The Lost Palace of Richmond by Anita Davison
Lloyds-- Lifeblood of British Commerce and Starbucks of its Day by Linda Collison
Welsh Idylls with Judith Arnopp Part One: St Gwenog's Church
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
Smuggling in Devon by Jenna Dawlish
Old English Crime and Punishment: Death By Pyre...A More seemly Death For Women? by Teresa Thomas Bohannon
Fourteen Years Hard Labour by Prue Batten
Steal a book, seven-years' hard labor overseas: Transportation as punishment in the 17th-19th centuries by J.A. Beard
WAR AND BATTLES
Bloody Deeds at Tewkesbury by Anne O'Brien
Degsastan - a lost battlefield by Richard Denning
The West Africa Squadron by Tess St. John
'Carrying Away the Booty' - Drake's attack on the Spanish 'Silver Train' by Jenny Barden
PEOPLE
William Before He Was the Conqueror By Rosanne E. Lortz
Eleanor of Aquitaine: Mother of Kings by Christy English
Richard II and His Double by Brian Wainwright
Lady Jane Grey: Royal Tragedy - Royal Pawn by Teresa Bohannon
The Mysterious Death of King William the Second by Judith Arnopp
Alice the Bad or Alice the Good - or Alice the Quintessential Business Woman? by Anne O'Brien
Charles Brandon ~ Loyaulte me Oblige by Katherine Marcella
Adeliza of Louvain, Lady of the English: A Forgotten Queen by Elizabeth Chadwick
The Harlot Who Was Dickens’ Muse, or, Even Greater Expectations by Katherine Ashe
Two Men, One Crown by Paula Lofting
ART
Holy Grails, Bejeweled Crosses, and Beastly Aquamanilia: European Art in the 13th Century by Sherry Jones
The Royal Coat of Arms by Debra Brown
WEAPONS
The English Longbow – Available in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Video by Scott Higginbotham
LIFE
The Victorian Wedding versus My Own Wedding by Karen V. Wasylowski
Regency Era Classified Ads by Debra Brown
Mother Mourning: Childbed Fever in Tudor Times by Sandra Byrd
Celebrating Childhood Picture Books and the stories that shape us by Deborah Swift
The must-have garden accessories for the rich and richer? A glasshouse and pineapples! by M.M. Bennetts
Eloping to Scotland and the Marriage Act of 1753 by Regina Jeffers
Culpeper's Complete Herbal by Farida Mestek
History-Within-History by Grace Elliot
Downton Abbey and the Fight for Irish Freedom by Tim Vicary
The Great ‘What If’. What if Edward Bruce had succeeded in Ireland? by Arthur Russell
The Sheltons, A Typcial Knight's Family by Anne Clinard Barnhill
By Permission of Heaven - The Great Fire of London by Richard Denning
FASHION
Undergarments Revealed by Diane Scott Lewis
The Changes in Ladies' Fashion from 1780s to 1814 - Too Much or Too Little by Maggi Andersen
The Wig Business was Big Business in 18th Century France by Lucinda Brant
FOOD
Nom nom nom ~ Regency style by M.M. Bennetts
17th Century Recipes by Katherine Pym
Food and Drink in Anglo-Saxon England by Richard Denning
TRANSPORTATION
The days the world’s most powerful man, the richest man and smartest man came together by David William Wilkin
Sir Goldsworthy Gurney and His Steam Carriage by Gary Inbinder
Mrs. Benz's Wild Ride by V.R. Christensen
REGENCY TIMES
Waltzing during the English Regency? Preposterous! by David W. Wilkin
Almack's - it's not quite what you think... by M.M. Bennetts
‘Privy & Privation: A Handsome History of Health & Hygiene in Regaustenian* Times’ by Lady A~, Authoress of ‘The Bath Novels of Lady A~’ Collection.
The Regency Review, by Lady A~, Authoress of 'The Bath Novels of Lady A~' Collection
TUDOR TIMES
The Reformation and the English People by Sam Thomas
Elizabeth & Mary, Rival Queens: A Study of Leadership by Barbara Kyle
Our Tudor Sisters by Sandra Byrd
The Lady Elizabeth, Prisoner at Woodstock by Victoria Lamb
There is soooo much more. Please look around. Don't forget to check our weekly giveaways. And do come back for another year!
Well, congratulations to you all. I can't tell you how good it is to have something daily to read connected to my favourite subject - history - that is intelligent and entertaining - and sometimes quite surprising. Please keep it up!
ReplyDeleteEHFA is a splendid source of information, entertainment, introduction to the works of authors, and to corners of England's history and the people who inhabited those corners. It's been a great privilege to be included among EHFA's contributors.
ReplyDeleteHappy anniversary!
ReplyDeleteGayle Mills
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Happy Anniversary! What a wonderful compilation of fascinating posts! A great source of information. Here's to many more anniversaries!
ReplyDeleteOh, I didn't know this site, I'll have a lot to catch up with - I've always been fond of history but English history is my weakness :) thanks Cathie and Happy Anniversary !!!
DeleteHappy Anniversary to Us!
ReplyDeleteCongrats EHFA!
ReplyDeleteThis is a wonderful site and I've really enjoyed the posts. Best wishes for another successful and splendid year!
Loving the list of posts - I am going to settle down, as if to a good meal, and work my way through them.
ReplyDeleteGrace x
Congratulations to a wonderful creative group...Such a year, so many marvellous posts, and such fantastic information. I really appreciate this site, it is so informative, and necessary. Again, thank you to all who have contributed, designed, written and devoted time to it. It is also my hubbies and my 41st Wedding Anniversary!!! Would adore winning a book.... Books are definitely part of my life... when I was 5 years old in Montreal, I was taken by ambulance to the hospital for Whooping Cough... Why I remember it so vividly is that I was fortunate that I already loved books and could read at 4... The horrendous thing was .. I had to leave my books at the hospital when I returned home... I cried for weeks....
ReplyDeleteRemember when I made the joke about I should write a book about a toll keeper? It turns out that Georgette Heyer wrote a toll-gate-centered book. :0
ReplyDeleteReally a year already? Well there have been a lot of interesting posts here. Well done one and all and esp Debbie for getting us organised.
ReplyDeleteHave just discovered this site and got so excited I posted to a thread that is a year old!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations everyone! You do an amazing job. Keep it up!
ReplyDeleteAs an occasional contributor can I echo the thanks to Debra for getting EHFA off the ground. If she has to put up with as much I.T. incompetence from the other authors as she does from me, she deserves a medal!
ReplyDeleteMike
John Campbell referred me here! CONGRATULATIONS on your FIRST blogoversary!!! NOTHING feels any better than the first! Congratulations!
ReplyDeleteLaurie
Forgot to mention:
ReplyDeleteThis one: Boundaries: Medieval Women in Medieval Gardens by Judith Arnopp
Sounds the most interesting to me!
I LOVE British authors!
KEEP writing!
Laurie
Congratulations and thank you for sharing all your hard work! Best wishes for continued success!
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