Arles: Home Sweet Amphitheatre
The Arles Amphitheatre in France is an excellent example of how cultures repurpose ancient ruins for living, defense, and more. Learn a little more about the history of this fascinating building!
10 “Doomed” Women Who Faced Less-Than-Perfect Endings
Fairy tales always promise happy endings: the girl gets the prince, the fancy castle, and the happily-ever-after. In real life, women often face less-than-perfect endings. In her book Doomed Queens, author and illustrator Kris Waldherr writes about fifty women who “met bad ends”, to quote the book’s subtitle. In this blog post, I’ve chosen ten of these women with quite “doomed” endings who particularly caught my interest.
Book Review: “The Sugar Merchant” Series by James Hutson-Wiley
The Sugar Merchant traces the lives of his protagonist Thomas Woodward and his son as they maneuver their ways through the economic and religious turmoil of eleventh- and twelfth-century Europe and Asia in a bid to make a good life for themselves and fulfill their personal missions. History readers should enjoy this though the characters in the sequel could be a little more well-developed.
Book Review: “Scourge of Henry VIII: The Life of Marie de Guise” by Melanie Clegg
Melanie Clegg writes a highly informative and readable, if not entirely academic, biography on Marie de Guise, Mary Queen of Scots’s’ mother. General readers will most likely find this to be a fascinating first foray into learning about Marie de Guise, especially if one is not familiar with her.