Edward II

Edward II was, by the standards of the fourteenth century, an extremely unconventional king. As I wrote in my previous post on his charact...

Published in 1985, this is the highly prolific Doherty's first novel. It takes place in 1345/6 and is narrated in the first person by Ed...

Performed by the Wales Theatre Company and directed by Malachi Bogdanov at the Globe Theatre, Neuss, Germany, on 30 July. (See my earlier po...

Carla , Sarah and Susan (and a few others) have all written about their five favourite historical novels recently. I decided to do it sli...

Published in 1974, this novel is, unfortunately, rather hard to find these days, and is currently unavailable on both Amazon UK and Amazon U...

Edward I died on 7 July 1307, exactly 699 years ago, at Burgh-on-Sands near the Scottish border. He was attempting another campaign against ...

Thanks once again to Susan Higginbotham for sending me a copy of this. (My Edward II library would be smaller without her kindness.) Althou...

Piers was executed/murdered on 19 June 1312. Guy Beauchamp, earl of Warwick, seized him from the custody of the earl of Pembroke and impris...

Spotted on Lulu , a modern reworking of Christopher Marlowe's c. 1592 play Edward II, by Tal Lostracco. It "boldly portrays the s...

Edward III has responded to Roger Mortimer....;) Also, this post and this one are well worth a read.