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Eleanor Blog
Entrecard Favorites | June 5th 2008 by Lady Rose
Eleanor Blog - Blog Description: "Eleanor and I, a mix of personal and historical posts, many about Eleanor of Castile a medieval queen"; also books, films, music and humour and other tidbits interest."This is lovely, interesting and well written blo read more
It’s Exactly a Week to My First Blogoversary Already!
Eleanorblog | April 14th 2008 by Alison
I’m shocked at how fast the time has gone. This means that now I have to really sort out my website for Eleanor of Castile and upload the photos and articles that I have written etc. The problem is I don’t actually like the theme I have read more
Eleanor Blog
Entrecard Favorites | April 10th 2008 by Lady Rose
Eleanor Blog - blog description: "A mix of personal and historical posts, many about Eleanor of Castile, a medieval queen. I also write about books, films, music and humour and whatever else takes my interest."I love castles and imagining the days of read more
Eleanor of Castile by Mark Satchwill
Eleanorblog | February 14th 2008 by Alison
Thanks to the lovely Alianore, I recently discovered the work of UK artist Mark Satchwill. We have all been particularly admiring Mark’s watercolours of Edward II (Eleanor’s youngest son) and Isabella. I also looked through his portfoli read more
Review Round-Up
Reading, Raving, and Ranting by a Historical Fiction Writer | December 15th 2007 by Susan Higginbotham
As I'm completing some reviews for the February Historical Novels Review (my, time flies), here are some from the November issue. (I was a busy girl!)Rivals for the CrownKathleen Givens, Pocket Books, 2007, $14.00/C$16.99, pb, 432pp, 9781416509929In read more
About Eleanor’s Family
Eleanorblog | November 24th 2007 by Alison
King Edward I or ‘Longshanks’ was born on the 17/18 June 1239 at the Palace of Westminster, London. He succeeded his father King Henry III as King of England on 20 November 1272 (whoops, sorry Edward, just missed your anniversary there!) read more
Eleanor Crosses in Antiquity
Eleanorblog | August 31st 2007 by Alison
As I’ve mentioned before, I collect things associated with Eleanor of Castile and her memorials. My favourite cross is Geddington, and I find it hard to find engravings of this one. So, here is one of my favourites. It’s funny to thi read more
Collecting Eleanor
Eleanorblog | August 16th 2007 by Alison
As most of you will know who read this blog regularly, I am interested in all thing Eleanor of Castile. About 2 years ago I starting collecting books and photographs of Eleanor and her memorials, my favourites being old engravings. These have usual read more