On 30th May 1445, a 15-year-old French girl was crowned Queen of England. Her French name (Margueritte) literally meant ‘daisy’, a flower she took as her personal emblem. By her parents and siblings she was… Read More »Young Margaret of Anjou
Henry VI inherited his father’s throne before he was even one year old. For the first 15 years of his reign, government lay in the hands of a council. It was dominated by his three… Read More »The Minority of Henry VI
If you asked someone in Elizabethan England to explain what a witch was, you would receive a very clear and familiar description. Witches were, as everyone at that time knew, devil worshipping practitioners of black… Read More »Witchcraft in the Middle Ages
In 1859 Mary Ann Evans published her first novel under the pen name ‘George Elliot’. She used a pseudonym because she did not believe Victorian society would take women as writers seriously. In the early… Read More »Women in the 15th Century – A Tale of Three Margarets