Monthly Archives: September 2011

The de Lacy Inheritance is featuring at Royalty Free Fiction http://royaltyfreefictionary.blogspot.com/  It’s an excellent site run by fellow author Deborah Swift and features historical novels that are about ‘ordinary’ people rather than the well known kings and queens.  Lots of good … Continue reading →

I’ve been working on my research into the history of the de Lacy family today and discovered some interesting suggestions about how Pontefract got its name: Although there is no record of a place named Pontefract in the Domesday Book, … Continue reading →

It’s been Heritage Open weekend and on Saturday I went to see Cockersand Abbey, which lies on a remote coastal plain of Lancashire where the river Lune flows into Morecambe Bay. There isn’t a lot to see as most of what … Continue reading →

It had been a long, hot summer in 1666 and the city of London was crowded with overhanging wooden buildings that were tinder dry.  Legend suggests that someone was a little careless in a bakery on Pudding Lane, although the … Continue reading →