Writing Fiction & Nonfiction Set in the Past

Official blog for historical novelist Nancy Bilyeau, author of the Joanna Stafford trilogy, Dreamland, The Blue, and The Orchid Hour

Saturday, October 21, 2017

Was Bishop Stephen Gardiner a Secret Tudor?

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By Nancy Bilyeau Finding illegitimate children in the Tudor royal family is a favorite pastime for some. Chief among the theoretical paren...
Sunday, October 15, 2017

Edward Kelley: The Dangerous Life of a Necromancer

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By Nancy Bilyeau The castle of Hrad Krivoklat, built forty kilometers west of Prague in the 12th century, possessed a Gothic chapel known ...
Monday, October 2, 2017

The Secrets of Anglesey Island, the Home of the Tudors

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by Nancy Bilyeau View from a cliff on Anglesey Island [wikimedia commons, photo by Eric Jones] After the army of  Henry Tudor, earl ...
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Saturday, September 23, 2017

My Story on Medieval Chic in the "Wall Street Journal"

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It isn't often I'm able to fuse my medieval passion with my fashion-writing interest and yet here it happened, in the Saturday ...
Sunday, September 10, 2017

Solving the Mysteries in the Vatican Secret Archives

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As the U.S. editor of The Vintage News, I edit stories and write them. It's rewarding to see the reach of the history-news website--ther...
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Sunday, September 3, 2017

The OTHER Anne Boleyn

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By Nancy Bilyeau Anne, queen of England In September 1534, Hatfield House radiated incredible tension. The handsome manor, built fort...
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Saturday, August 26, 2017

Jackie Kennedy Onassis, Book Editor

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I didn't know much about Jackie Kennedy's career as a book editor, but in a vague way assumed that she was no more than a dilettante...
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