Monthly Archives: April 2014
New TV series The First Georgians: what it’s all about
My article from the paper today tells you roughly what it’s all about… ‘Our most calamitous Kings, the troubled lives of our Hanoverian monarchs are revealed in a fascinating new series. – a new series will explore the lives of the British Hanoverian monarchs – it marks the 300 years since George I ascended the
Continue ReadingMy book Courtiers, and How I Came To Write It
I’ve quite been proud and pleased to see big piles of my book Courtiers, which I published in 2011, on various bookshop tables over the last few days – and indeed, I have been quoting from it at length in our upcoming TV series on the Georgian court. Here is a re-post of an interview I did
Continue ReadingIn which I bid a fond farewell to the Georgians
Today, for me, marked if not the ‘beginning of the end’, then the ‘end of the beginning’ for the Georgian tercentenary. The three-hundredth anniversary of the start of the Georgian age in 1714/2014 was something we started thinking about five years ago or more. In fact, when I started researching and writing my book about
Continue ReadingIn which I reveal my Innermost Self
Regular readers of this blog will know that the general tone is amusing self-deprecation. (You didn’t realise it was supposed to be amusing? Oh. There’ll be a momentary pause while my crest falls.) However, in this blog we are not afraid to Get Serious on occasion, and in this case, very serious indeed. This interview
Continue Reading‘New Worlds’: brand-new C17th historical drama on tonight
The new Channel Four drama ‘New Worlds’ begins tonight, and you can watch the trailer here. I was amused to discover that the cast of young actors were made to read my book Cavalier for background about the seventeenth century. As one of them, Jamie Dornan, has gone on to be cast as Christian Grey
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