English Historical Fiction Authors

by Lauren Gilbert Laid Table by Nicholas Gillis, 1611 Old cookbooks and women’s household books or receipt books from times past are ...

by MJ Logue After the first battle of the English Civil War at Edgehill on 23 rd October 1642, the people of Warwickshire found themselv...

By Katherine Pym First, a little technical history: Back in the day, monks were barber-surgeons.  They took care of all men's need...

by Diane Scott Lewis Before modern medicine lay people and some physicians held the belief that transferring the ailment to another object...

by Katherine Pym From the book: Samuel Pepys' Penny Merriments, Being a Collection of Chapbooks, full of Histories, Jests, Magic, Amor...

by Samuel Thomas In an earlier post (here) I noted that, despite the popular perception that most people in the pre-modern world died youn...

In the 17th century if you were ill it was much more dangerous to employ a physician than to use your local herbalist. The richer you were...