📸: Levitt Parkes

#history #reenactment #englishcivilwar #britishcivilwar #warofthreekingdoms

I'm thrilled to announce that I've signed with the fabulous @stairwellbooks.bsky.social to publish my #historicalNovel, A Murder of Crows, in 2028.

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📚💙 #booksky #HistoricalFiction #HistFic #StuartLondon #EnglishCivilWar #17thCentury #AmWriting

It was still at the stage of clubs and fists when that well-known face got beaten to bits. #TheClash #EnglishCivilWar

But who hid a radio under the stairs an' who got caught out on their unawares? #TheClash #EnglishCivilWar

When that new party army came marching right up the stairs. #TheClash #EnglishCivilWar

“the northern party are ready to join with the Scots in the King’s Quarell... The Speaker going to the Spa...”

📸: Karen Berry

#history #reenactment #englishcivilwar #britishcivilwar #warofthreekingdoms

✨I found Stella Riley’s A Splendid Defiance in 2016 & have since listened 2 or 3 more times, today most recently. I have now listened to all 18 of her books more than once. The stories, prose, Alex Wyndham, all withstand repetition.
#BookSky #StellaRiley #Romance #EnglishCivilWar

The sun is shining an' the kids are shouting loud but you gotta know it's shining through a crack in the cloud. #TheClash #EnglishCivilWar

If you missed it in Aylesbury, here's your chance to catch it in Marlow! #martyrs #regicides #communists #17thcenturyhistory #englishcivilwar

As part of the peace agreement the Royalists were returned to the mainland and the Commonwealth garrisoned the castle.

📸: Levitt Parkes

#history #reenactment #englishcivilwar #britishcivilwar #warofthreekingdoms

Your face was blue in the light of the screen as we watched the speech of an animal scream. #TheClash #EnglishCivilWar

Alright, there you are, ha ha, I told you so, says everybody that we know. #TheClash #EnglishCivilWar

In total there were about 2500 casualties at the battle of Newbury, though many more would have died in the days following the battle.

📸: Rhodri Ross

#history #reenactment #englishcivilwar #britishcivilwar #warofthreekingdoms

"As the velvet cloak of moonlight settled over the ruined towers of Raglan Castle, the shadows beneath them stirred ..."

THE VELVET CLOAK OF MOONLIGHT – #dualtime story set partly in the #EnglishCivilWar era during the siege of #RaglanCastle – #romance #danger #secretlove!
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Miles Corbet was the Member of Parliament for Yarmouth and was the last signatory to the death warrant of the King. He was executed for regicide when Charles I's son, charles II came to the throne.
#Englishcivilwar #charlesl #historicalfiction #historymatters #historynerd

📸: Mel Green

#history #reenactment #englishcivilwar #warofthreekingdoms #britishcivilwar

#HappyFriday. #OnThisDay in 1643: the English Parliament signed the Solemn League and Covenant, agreeing that Presbyterianism would be imposed on England in return for Scottish help to fight the royalists.
#EnglishCivilWar #17thCentury #AmWriting #History

It's Book Quote Wednesday and the word is KNOW. England, 1645; since John's last visit here a civil war has broken out, together with one or two other developments. #bookqw #englishcivilwar #alternatehistory www.benjeapes.com/index.php/no...

Hear me read a longer extract at benjeapes.substack.com.

📸: Michael Molcher

#history #reenactment #englishcivilwar #britishcivilwar #warofthreekingdoms

A woman's eye will shed a tear to see his face so beaten in fear and it was just around the corner in the English civil war. #TheClash #EnglishCivilWar