I’ve spent nearly 4 weeks in Ireland & have been inspired and moved by the stories of this extraordinary nation and its people. The message I take away is one that is needed now more than ever: #weallcomefromsomewhere EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum

Friends, Romans, history enthusiasts! You can listen to "Shakespeare's Borrowed Feathers with Darren Freebury-Jones (ep 198)" at buzzsprout.com/1129166/157086… CarolAnnLloyd Manchester University Press

Book giveaway! #CourtingtheVirginQueen (US addresses only) #RoyalsRebelsRomantics is hosting a book giveaway that's OPEN TO EVERYONE. Patrons automatically entered. Others: join or reply to this ?: should Elizabeth I have married?

Join me (ONLINE) with Smithsonian Associates to explore the passions & personalities of the Women of the Wars of the Roses. Thursday 25 September at 6:30 pm ET. Registration bit.ly/Womenwarsroses

Tudor friends are forever friends. Thank you, Brigitte Webster ! You made my day/week/month/year! ❤️❤️

#Royalsrebelsromantics is giving away signed copy of Courting the Virgin Queen! This patron giveaway open to all! If you’re not (yet) a patron, join NOW or reply with your advice to Elizabeth: should she marry or not? Pen & Sword Books

Join me along w/ Smithsonian Associates TONIGHT for a discussion of how women were at the heart and the helm of the turning of Fortune’s Wheel during the Wars of the Roses! Online. bit.ly/Womenwarsroses

rip to one of the greatest, maggie smith, may you continue to be cutthroat wherever you may be

RIP Maggie Smith. A British icon.

The two Dames. Dame Maggie and Dame Judi.

Professor McGonagall

Next week, I join Mt. Horeb Public Library to discuss secrets & spying of Queen Elizabeth I & Mary Queen of Scots. The network set up by Francis Walsingham is considered the birth of modern espionage. Intercepted letters, encrypted messages, disguised agents. Just like today!

In Glass Onion, Blanc calls Bron's language a "minefield of malapropisms." What are malapropisms? Where do they show up? That’s the topic of a special episode of #RoyalsRebelsRomantics this week! . bit.ly/RRRepisodes bit.ly/youtubeRRR

Thank you to everyone who participated in the #royalsrebelsromantics book giveaway! Signed copies are on the way to the winners! Pen & Sword Books

Look what is out in the world!! So exciting.

Ever reached for the “pineapple of success”? Or “for all intensive purposes” been finished with a project? Or found an “escaped goat” to blame? Malaprops rule! I chat about how & why on #royalsrebelsromantics. bit.ly/RRRepisodes bit.ly/youtubeRRR

Happy National Poetry Day! This is Helena Bonham Carter reading 'I Worried' by Mary Oliver, with its wonderful message at the end...