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Doubtful Muse: February 2009
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You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right. - Maya Angelou. Tuesday, February 24, 2009. Marvelous Day: Mission Accomplished. It isn't that I suddenly have a new ambition to become Suzie Homemaker (Like that's even a possibility! He's worth the effort. I suppose being so ill has been good for me in one way because it has given me an important reminder of how short life is and how important it is not to waste it by being too busy all the time. Marvelous da...
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December | 2014 | A Nevill Feast
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An antidote to literary cardboard cutouts. Stay updated via RSS. 1st St Albans (8). 2nd St Albans (1). Last of the Barons (2). Earl of Salisbury (1). Earl of Warwick (1). Elizabeth of York (1). House of Lancaster (20). Edward, Prince of Wales (5). Margaret of Anjou (8). Hundred Years War (1). Marriage and the Nevills (14). Charles Duke of Burgundy (4). Grey of Ruthyn (1). Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham (1). Piers de Breze (1). William Bonville, Lord Harrington (5). Miscellaneous bad boys (11). Maud S...
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A eureka moment lost? | A Nevill Feast
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An antidote to literary cardboard cutouts. Stay updated via RSS. 1st St Albans (8). 2nd St Albans (1). Last of the Barons (2). Earl of Salisbury (1). Earl of Warwick (1). Elizabeth of York (1). House of Lancaster (20). Edward, Prince of Wales (5). Margaret of Anjou (8). Hundred Years War (1). Marriage and the Nevills (14). Charles Duke of Burgundy (4). Grey of Ruthyn (1). Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham (1). Piers de Breze (1). William Bonville, Lord Harrington (5). Miscellaneous bad boys (11). Maud S...
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May | 2014 | A Nevill Feast
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An antidote to literary cardboard cutouts. Stay updated via RSS. 1st St Albans (8). 2nd St Albans (1). Last of the Barons (2). Earl of Salisbury (1). Earl of Warwick (1). Elizabeth of York (1). House of Lancaster (20). Edward, Prince of Wales (5). Margaret of Anjou (8). Hundred Years War (1). Marriage and the Nevills (14). Charles Duke of Burgundy (4). Grey of Ruthyn (1). Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham (1). Piers de Breze (1). William Bonville, Lord Harrington (5). Miscellaneous bad boys (11). Maud S...
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Barbara Gaskell Denvil: Is History All Around Us?
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Thursday, December 11, 2014. Is History All Around Us? History is, quite simply, what we of the present time can make of past times. Yet time, they say, is an illusion. After all, Quantum Physics takes a life-time to study. There goes time again, connecting moments into life-spans – and that means history! So is history all around us? So can time ever be something more that the straight line in which we view it? Already half past nine? Others live in the future with only hope to inspire our present momen...
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Barbara Gaskell Denvil: Articles
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R ICHARD III - THE DISCOVERY OF HIS BURIAL PLACE. ARE AUTHORS SHRINKING VIOLETS? FANTASY IN FICTION: WHAT'S IN A NAME? SEX IN FICTION: DO NICE GUYS FINISH LAST? MEDIEVAL CLOTHING - AND NOT A THING TO WEAR? MEDIEVAL FEASTS: FOOD FOR THOUGHT. MEDIEVAL KILLERS: PLAGUE, SMALLPOX, AND DYSENTERY. THE TUDORS: SINS OF THE FATHERS? INSPIRATION, WRITER'S BLOCK and. LAMBERT SIMNEL - ENIGMA AND ANOMALY. HISTORICAL RESEARCH AND THE BUBONIC PLAGUE. R ICHARD III - THE DISCOVERY OF HIS BURIAL PLACE. I freely admit I hav...
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Barbara Gaskell Denvil: May 2015
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Saturday, May 2, 2015. I am standing alone. Except for the shadows, the room is empty: Dark and sinister, they billow around me like heavy curtains in a silent wind. I am lost, the emptiness both within and without. But I cling to hope. My hope is a doorway which stands before me, the only escape from this place of dark depression. The way out glows brilliantly and is utterly enticing, offering me everything I need and desire. But even as I rejoice in its promise, the door is closing in my face. Or shoul...
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Barbara Gaskell Denvil: January 2014
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Sunday, January 26, 2014. The Torture of the Rack. Not far from me, soar the unexpected battlements of a small castle. Standing in the neat pastoral greenery of the Australian countryside, it is fairly easy to spot that this is a modern replica. Sadly there are not many genuine medieval castles in the Australian countryside! Rectangular wooden frame with a large roller at one or both ends. Chained by his ankles to the lower roller, and by his wrists to the higher, the victim was gradually stretched a...
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Barbara Gaskell Denvil: April 2014
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Friday, April 18, 2014. The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of. Or someone else who also knows I am coming? Shall I risk going on further, or shall I wake myself up? Another lesson came in minutes when I went through a swing door and found a form of paradise awaiting me. I learned then that the door that opens on opportunity is actually the same door that has previously closed on something else. Have I taught myself these lessons? Where do dreams come from and how important are they? Barbara G. Denvil. Born i...