Edward II

Delighted to see that my attempts to correct all the misinformation on Edward II is having something of an effect. I visited this site recen...

NOTE: there's a much longer essay on Piers Gaveston here , and a much shorter one here . Edward's great favourite Piers Gaveston fa...

Having commented in my last post that Edward II was emotionally reliant on men, I thought I should emphasise that he must have had relations...

This post is about a man few people have heard of, yet was a major influence at the English court between about 1315 and 1320: Sir Roger Dam...

Thanks to Susan and Carla (and others - follow the links) for giving me a great laugh with their 'Rules for Historical Fiction'. T...

Just to say thanks to all of you who support my efforts - either by leaving comments here or by private message - to rehabilitate the lovely...

Hmm, surfing the net over the last few days has convinced me to keep writing this and correcting all the nonsense that still appears about E...

Now, I'm not denying that Edward II was an appalling king. He didn't have any of the qualities required in a 14th century ruler, and...

If you love Susan Higginbotham's novel The Traitor's Wife (and if you haven't read it, go and buy it now), you might be interest...

This post is about a man I've always found absolutely fascinating: the man who was the de facto ruler of England for much of the 1320s, ...