tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2404140129284862220Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:19:21 +0000American Civil Warwomen playwrites17th Century BeautyThe Putney DebatesThe Exeter PrincesscropsbathingvariolationhildegardBourgogneThe Hope Diamondguest postTreaty of UxbridgeAphra BehnAngel of HadleyTorstensonBellsVOCOliver St. JohnKing Philip's WarLondon Coffee HousesgermanyColonel RigbyBlack PlagueNew Year's Day in 17th C FranceGrace SherwoodThe importance of horsescornwallreformationmary frithcastlesBy The SwordDeliverance DaneVirginiaLady Tollemachethe roaring girlJohn ThurloeSea VenturePamunkeyNathaniel's NutmegThe Globe Theatreelizabeth pepysCountess of Derbycounter reformationNicola CornickdialectCharles IIjewelryBattle of WorcesterLady Mary Villiersreenactmentbank of EnglandIn search of the Théâtre du MaraisholidaysLucy HutchinsonmarketingVengeance ThwartedAnne DymockeChickahominyDaphne Du MaurierCulloden SpiritThe Physick BookPamela de LeonWitchcraft and MidwiferyExecution of Charles IInigo JonesvilledieuThe Starving TimeLady Anne FanshawemagicKim MurphyPrue PhillipsonDuke of BuckinghamKing James IIAnita DavisonQueen of EnglandCounterfeitersThanksgivingFleet MarriagesCharles IPendle WitchesAshdown HouseWitches of MarylandarcheaologyTrencarrow SecretWallensteinMary IILouis XIIIPocahontasHannah DustinThe King's GeneralMusketeer19th centuryMary Beale - by Dee Swift Guest BloggerHorrible HistoriesSusan Holloway ScottGeoffrey Robertsonmoll cutpurselondonTower of TalesCommedía dell'ArteThe Divine Awardlancashirefairies17th century theatreJoan WrightJohn Evelyn 1620-1706Elizabeth Dysartritual yearFrederick Elector of PalatineNottingham CastleElector of Palatinethird supplyAlison StuartOpechancanoughHenry SpelmanClippersfashionThe Cabal Ministry of Charles IIpublishingPeace of WestphaliaPremio Dardas AwardFerdinand II Holy Roman EmperorAlec Guinessthe Sun KingThis 'n ThatOliver CromwellMarylandpowwowJamestownhighwaymanPelsaartThe Smuggler SquireNewcastles lambsshakespeareLady Anne HalkettfilmBinh Thuan shipwreckcoloniel AmericaSolway Martyrsthe Winter QueencomitragedyGreen Ribbon ClubdesjardinsKatherine Howehistorical novel societyCorneliszAntwerpKatherine SedleyAfricansJames Duke of YorkFerdinando FairfaxKit CavanaghcleanlinessThe Tyrannicide Briefsamuel pepysprintingFranceColonel Joseph BampfieldJackie HodsonKing Christian IVrape trialsregimentvalentine's dayThomas FairfaxtravelDressing in StarlightBattle of DunbarPrincess Mary StuartMenabillythe CommanderyThe King's DaughterWitches of VirginiaRubensharvestThe PaspaheghDr. FleckerColonel John Hutchinsonghostshistorical moviesinquisitionDuchess LauderdaleThe TempestAgecroft HallhempMadame MolièreThe PowhatanItalyMary SharrattThe DreamingFrench historyscalpingGiles MiltonHeworth MoorKnox Robinson PublishinglanguageShThe Lost Children of Charles ISaint-SimonHugueonotsSandra GullandembroideryGeorge PercyHMS Sussex 1694cunning folksuperstitionSir Mattew HaleErastes-Guest AuthorBattle of LandenFrenchman's Creek17th Century Funeral PracticesOn water and germsCV Wedgwoodshe-soldierMay 1660maypolesshamansWilliam CravenBoscobelscotlandrobert herrickJacobszwitch trialsBattle of RamilliesSalemLouis's Legs17th century French historyThe New WorldJohn HothamPromise and HonourWampanoagMurder in Pall MalThe Man in the Iron MaskPrince Rupert Of The RhineGillian BagwellMarie de RohanHortense de ManciniKatherine GradySir Richard GrenvillePlague Doctors [Dottore De La Peste]Plantin-MoretusWilliam ChallonerAnne of AustriaGustavus AdolphusThomas AllenThirty Years WarCockacoeskeWhite Indianscatherine de mediciagricultureall hallows eveJames HindIsaac NewtonPeter Fitzsimmonswomen mysticsChristie DickasonThe King's ManSir Thomas FairfaxtheaterLord WilmotWreck of the BataviaWilliam HardingLord SavileMother RossJohn SmithEarl of DerbyFootmenLathom HouseMarson MoorreligionCromwell's Christmaslost colonyliving historyKing James IregicideKing Louis XIVJane LanemedicineHoydens & FirebrandsRoaring Ladies Who Write About The Seventeenth Centuryhttp://hoydensandfirebrands.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Anita Davison)Blogger161125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2404140129284862220.post-6793574885552905163Sun, 22 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +00002012-01-23T20:19:21.516Z17th Century Beauty17th Century Beauty Lady at her Toilette 1660 - ter Borch In the 21st Century, we are fortunate to have multi-billion pound companies who offer women – and men – every beauty aid imaginable to stave off the encroaching years. For the more annually challenged, there is plastic surgery and Botox to make us feel good. Not all these treatments,  are enjoyable, but  pure luxury compared to what our 17th century http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HoydensAndFirebrands/~3/jZs2xs5ge6U/17th-century-beauty.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anita Davison)2<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HoydensAndFirebrands/~4/jZs2xs5ge6U" height="1" width="1"/>http://hoydensandfirebrands.blogspot.com/2012/01/17th-century-beauty.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2404140129284862220.post-7927732334002796573Sun, 15 Jan 2012 18:08:00 +00002012-01-15T18:32:41.257ZWitch Persecutions, Women, and Social Change: Germany 1560-1660PART FOUR, Last in a series Read Part One, Part Two, and Part Three . The late 16th and early 17th century was an era of radical social, economic, and religious change. As women had much to lose, they had reason to rebel. And they remained a threat to the new social order. Art of this period often depicted women as insubordinate and wanton: beating their husbands, swilling wine, and lustfullyhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HoydensAndFirebrands/~3/fF924GmYJlY/witch-persecutions-women-and-social.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mary Sharratt)3<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HoydensAndFirebrands/~4/fF924GmYJlY" height="1" width="1"/>http://hoydensandfirebrands.blogspot.com/2012/01/witch-persecutions-women-and-social.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2404140129284862220.post-6056554867455764777Sun, 08 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +00002012-01-09T09:21:27.511ZGustavus AdolphusPeace of WestphaliaElector of PalatineThirty Years WarKing Christian IVWallensteinTorstensonThe Thirty Years War – A Beginners Guide Part 2 In my blog of October 11, I introduced you to the first phase of the Thirty Year’s War which was marked by the Bohemian revolt and the defeat of the French Huguenot cause. A model of Heidleberg Castle in the mid 17th century Since posting that blog, I have travelled to Germany and Austria and was thrilled to end up in Heidleberg and actually walk through the Castle, the seat of the http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HoydensAndFirebrands/~3/pYWV10l_bRE/thirty-years-war-beginners-guide-part-2.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Alison Stuart)2<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HoydensAndFirebrands/~4/pYWV10l_bRE" height="1" width="1"/>http://hoydensandfirebrands.blogspot.com/2012/01/thirty-years-war-beginners-guide-part-2.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2404140129284862220.post-5384027353920738682Sun, 01 Jan 2012 02:24:00 +00002012-01-01T23:32:38.440ZAlison StuartTrencarrow SecretMary SharrattAnita DavisonTower of TalesCulloden SpiritSandra GullandKim MurphyA Hoydens New Year!While the Hoydens all share a burning passion for all things seventeenth century sometimes our writing takes away from our first love and we would like to take this opportunity to recap our 2011 and look forward to 2012 (and beyond) with some exciting new stories coming from these talented writers. 2011 New Releases from the Hoydens: Anita Davison celebrated the release of two new books in http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HoydensAndFirebrands/~3/ZvbWZMul3yc/hoydens-new-year.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Alison Stuart)1<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HoydensAndFirebrands/~4/ZvbWZMul3yc" height="1" width="1"/>http://hoydensandfirebrands.blogspot.com/2012/01/hoydens-new-year.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2404140129284862220.post-4189737544832914803Sun, 18 Dec 2011 01:16:00 +00002011-12-19T15:12:55.504Zwitch trialsWitches of MarylandWitches of MarylandIn North America, most people think of Salem when witch trials are mentioned. I've already blogged about Virginia witches where the first such trial was held on the continent in 1626. But the neighboring colony of Maryland was known to have witch trials as well.At least twelve people were prosecuted for being a witch in that colony. The earliest known trials were aboard ships bound for Maryland. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HoydensAndFirebrands/~3/iQcAwAFx7x8/witches-of-maryland.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kim Murphy)1<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HoydensAndFirebrands/~4/iQcAwAFx7x8" height="1" width="1"/>http://hoydensandfirebrands.blogspot.com/2011/12/witches-of-maryland.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2404140129284862220.post-7438434811650182995Sun, 11 Dec 2011 13:53:00 +00002011-12-17T17:37:29.553ZHortense de ManciniHortense de Mancini Hortense Mancini During my Restoration research, I came across another notorious but fascinating woman who lived by her own rules and scandalised Europe - Hortense de Mancini was rich and titled naturally, how else could she have got away with her outrageous behaviour? Born 'Ortensia' in Rome on 6th June 1646 to Baron Lorenzo Mancini, an Italian aristocrat and Girolama Mazzarini, the sister ofhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HoydensAndFirebrands/~3/voJw4wBiOr8/hortense-de-mancini.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anita Davison)2<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HoydensAndFirebrands/~4/voJw4wBiOr8" height="1" width="1"/>http://hoydensandfirebrands.blogspot.com/2011/12/hortense-de-mancini.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2404140129284862220.post-7406767601591198250Sun, 04 Dec 2011 18:16:00 +00002011-12-04T18:16:34.883ZfairiesWitchcraft and MidwiferyPendle WitcheslancashireThe Pendle Witches and Their Magic: Part Two Blacko Tower, a Victorian folly (ca 1890) near Malkin Tower Farm, Lancashire The crimes of which Mother Demdike and her fellow witches were accused dated back years before the 1612 trial. The trial itself might have never happened had it not been for King James I’s obsession with the occult. Until his reign, witch persecutions had been relatively rare in England compared with Scotland and http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HoydensAndFirebrands/~3/gK1LCtm0Jlw/pendle-witches-and-their-magic-part-two.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mary Sharratt)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HoydensAndFirebrands/~4/gK1LCtm0Jlw" height="1" width="1"/>http://hoydensandfirebrands.blogspot.com/2011/12/pendle-witches-and-their-magic-part-two.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2404140129284862220.post-5148861374164229569Fri, 11 Nov 2011 13:31:00 +00002011-11-18T20:14:25.491ZAphra BehnAphra BehnDoing research for my novels, I come across all sorts of fascinating people I cannot resist including in my latest wip. I have heard of Aphra Behn, of course, as the first women who earned a living from her writing. What I didn’t know about her was she was born Aphra or ‘Eafrey’ Johnson, and spent a year in Surinam, Dutch Guiana in the West Indies, where her father was given a diplomatic post, http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HoydensAndFirebrands/~3/ElKSoITLeVo/aphra-behn.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anita Davison)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HoydensAndFirebrands/~4/ElKSoITLeVo" height="1" width="1"/>http://hoydensandfirebrands.blogspot.com/2011/11/aphra-behn.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2404140129284862220.post-8786448682182606460Sun, 06 Nov 2011 13:16:00 +00002011-11-06T13:16:02.612ZGambling on love I've been reading about John Law: gambler, criminal, genius, founder of our monetary system. His story is nothing short of amazing, but it is the story of his wife Catherine that intrigues me most. Early in his eventful career, after a night of successful gambling, Law was introduced to Madame Catherine Seigneur (née Knowles, or Knollys, 1669 — 1747), an English noblewoman — a http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HoydensAndFirebrands/~3/iolxMMn1xUQ/gambling-on-love.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sandra Gulland.)1<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HoydensAndFirebrands/~4/iolxMMn1xUQ" height="1" width="1"/>http://hoydensandfirebrands.blogspot.com/2011/11/gambling-on-love.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2404140129284862220.post-511379845741974255Sun, 30 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +00002011-10-30T01:00:02.545ZThe Dreamingcunning folkmedicinevariolation17th-Century MedicineA couple of months ago while visiting Trinity College in Dublin, I saw an exhibit in celebration of 400 years of medicine. I was intrigued by the display. It had an original copy of the classic John Gerard's Herbal, or Generall Historie of Plantes. The glass cases also contained tools used by surgeons throughout the years. Notably absent was any mention of the cunning folk. Without saying as muchhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HoydensAndFirebrands/~3/Uao0h99PO3c/17th-century-medicine.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kim Murphy)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HoydensAndFirebrands/~4/Uao0h99PO3c" height="1" width="1"/>http://hoydensandfirebrands.blogspot.com/2011/10/17th-century-medicine.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2404140129284862220.post-1638410023680806007Sun, 23 Oct 2011 09:54:00 +00002011-10-23T10:54:10.107+01:00fairiesWitchcraft and MidwiferyPendle Witcheswitch trialsreligionreformationlancashireThe Pendle Witches and Their Magic: Part 1 In 1612, in one of the most meticulously documented witch trials in English history, seven women and two men from Pendle Forest in Lancashire, Northern England were executed. In court clerk Thomas Potts’s account of the proceedings, The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster, published in 1613, he pays particular attention to the one alleged witch who escaped justice by http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HoydensAndFirebrands/~3/FuUaSajCgv8/pendle-witches-and-their-magic-part-1.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mary Sharratt)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HoydensAndFirebrands/~4/FuUaSajCgv8" height="1" width="1"/>http://hoydensandfirebrands.blogspot.com/2011/10/pendle-witches-and-their-magic-part-1.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2404140129284862220.post-4313725189194642230Sun, 16 Oct 2011 10:08:00 +00002011-10-16T11:08:12.166+01:00all hallows eveWitchcraft and MidwiferyPendle WitchesreformationlancashireholidaysAll Hallows Eve in Old Lancashire Come Halloween, the popular imagination turns to witches. Especially in Pendle Witch Country, the rugged Pennine landscape surrounding Pendle Hill, once home to twelve individuals arrested for witchcraft in 1612. The most notorious was Elizabeth Southerns, alias Old Demdike, cunning woman of long-standing repute and the heroine of my novel Daughters of the Witching Hill. How did these http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HoydensAndFirebrands/~3/rLx-5Jo27_0/all-hallows-eve-in-old-lancashire.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mary Sharratt)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HoydensAndFirebrands/~4/rLx-5Jo27_0" height="1" width="1"/>http://hoydensandfirebrands.blogspot.com/2011/10/all-hallows-eve-in-old-lancashire.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2404140129284862220.post-7833237915828520402Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:57:00 +00002011-10-10T17:57:50.917+01:00the Winter QueenFrederick Elector of PalatineThirty Years WarHugueonotsPrince Rupert Of The RhineFerdinand II Holy Roman EmperorThe Thirty Years War – A Beginners Guide Part 1 I must confess to pure self interest in writing this blog because for me the Thirty Years War  is something that happened in “the backstory” to my main interest in the English Civil Wars. Yet many of the men who fought in the English Civil Wars, Prince Rupert and Thomas Fairfax for example, served on the continent and gained their experience in the bloody conflict that raged across Europe and http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HoydensAndFirebrands/~3/AHkj5Gcdt_c/thirty-years-war-beginners-guide-part-1.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Alison Stuart)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HoydensAndFirebrands/~4/AHkj5Gcdt_c" height="1" width="1"/>http://hoydensandfirebrands.blogspot.com/2011/10/thirty-years-war-beginners-guide-part-1.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2404140129284862220.post-3532586343827274814Sun, 25 Sep 2011 00:42:00 +00002011-09-26T23:31:26.469+01:00Prue PhillipsonVengeance ThwartedKnox Robinson PublishingVENGEANCE THWARTED - A New book of the English Civil War by Prue Phillipson This week, Hoydens welcomes debut author, Prue Phillipson. Of her novel, Prue comments ‘I have studied the history of the mid-seventeenth century and am fascinated by its impact on the daily lives of families. A true story of a haystack firing followed by a summary hanging gave me the idea for an exciting opening but under different circumstances.  I enjoyed working out the unusual plot, http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HoydensAndFirebrands/~3/NGnpoY1PlJs/vengeance-thwarted-new-book-of-english.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Alison Stuart)1<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HoydensAndFirebrands/~4/NGnpoY1PlJs" height="1" width="1"/>http://hoydensandfirebrands.blogspot.com/2011/09/vengeance-thwarted-new-book-of-english.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2404140129284862220.post-1925898452214126853Sun, 18 Sep 2011 15:00:00 +00002011-09-18T16:00:00.325+01:00Gold fever everlastingBefore the Gold Rush, before Dot Com Fever (and bust), there was alchemy—a formula thought to be able to turn base metals into gold or silver. The search for such a formula was certainly a part of the 17th century in all levels of society. Madame Catherine Voisin was burned alive at the stake for being a witch, but it was possibly Gold Fever that killed her. Denis Poculot, Sieur de Blessis (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HoydensAndFirebrands/~3/6i_FQA9ow6k/gold-fever-everlasting.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sandra Gulland.)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HoydensAndFirebrands/~4/6i_FQA9ow6k" height="1" width="1"/>http://hoydensandfirebrands.blogspot.com/2011/09/gold-fever-everlasting.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2404140129284862220.post-6909747250412248796Sun, 11 Sep 2011 00:04:00 +00002011-09-11T01:04:00.119+01:00OpechancanoughCockacoeskePamunkeyQueen of the PamunkeyDaughter of paramount chief, Opechancanough, Cockacoeske was known as the Queen of the Pamunkey. Queen is an incorrect term, but it was the closest 17th-century word to the English concept. In reality, Cockacoeske was a weroansqua, or a female chief. The correct title for a male chief was weroance, and they were usually referred to by the English as kings. Born around 1640, little is known http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HoydensAndFirebrands/~3/Zs1BQ2Oqxq4/queen-of-pamunkey.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kim Murphy)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HoydensAndFirebrands/~4/Zs1BQ2Oqxq4" height="1" width="1"/>http://hoydensandfirebrands.blogspot.com/2011/09/queen-of-pamunkey.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2404140129284862220.post-5840317286894774394Sun, 04 Sep 2011 05:05:00 +00002011-09-04T06:05:27.052+01:00Nicola CornickWilliam CravenAshdown HouseThe Yorkshire “Dick Whittington” – Sir William Craven and the rise of the Craven Dynasty Ashdown House Parterre This week the hoydens are delighted to welcome back NICOLA CORNICK , USA Today best selling author with another installment in the Craven dynasty. Nicola has a close association with Ashdown House in Berkshire, the seat of the Craven family.  A couple of months ago I was fortunate enough to attend a performance of The City Madam at the Swan Theatre in http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HoydensAndFirebrands/~3/uKRjIbUFOxw/yorkshire-dick-whittington-sir-william.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Alison Stuart)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HoydensAndFirebrands/~4/uKRjIbUFOxw" height="1" width="1"/>http://hoydensandfirebrands.blogspot.com/2011/09/yorkshire-dick-whittington-sir-william.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2404140129284862220.post-2682172426929196722Sun, 28 Aug 2011 10:11:00 +00002011-08-28T11:11:31.198+01:00Witchcraft and Midwiferywitch trialsreligionreformationgermanycounter reformationWitch Persecutions, Women, and Social Change: Germany 1560-1660 Burning witches, 1555. PART THREE (Read Part One and Part Two.) Major witch hunting panics arose in the 1560s throughout Europe and were especially severe in the German Southwest. Who were the victims of this mass hysteria? Even though witches were believed to come from all social classes, the trials focused on poor, middle-aged or older women (Merchant 138). Throughout Europe, midwives http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HoydensAndFirebrands/~3/AlzEIc0zOyY/witch-persecutions-women-and-social.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mary Sharratt)1<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HoydensAndFirebrands/~4/AlzEIc0zOyY" height="1" width="1"/>http://hoydensandfirebrands.blogspot.com/2011/08/witch-persecutions-women-and-social.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2404140129284862220.post-7944723641861016077Sun, 21 Aug 2011 06:47:00 +00002011-08-21T07:47:53.113+01:00Daphne Du MaurierFrenchman's CreekSir Richard GrenvilleThe King's GeneralMenabillyTHE KING'S GENERAL I fell in love with the period of the English Civil War when my father, who loved reading aloud, read me THE KING’S GENERAL by Daphne du Maurier. In hindsight it probably was not the most suitable book to read to an eight year old but it fired my imagination into what was to become a lifelong passion. Du Maurier wrote the book during the dark days of World War II when her own husband, as she http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HoydensAndFirebrands/~3/pqjaQc-_xc0/kings-general.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Alison Stuart)2<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HoydensAndFirebrands/~4/pqjaQc-_xc0" height="1" width="1"/>http://hoydensandfirebrands.blogspot.com/2011/08/kings-general.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2404140129284862220.post-7796356238235576611Sat, 06 Aug 2011 23:24:00 +00002011-08-07T00:24:38.286+01:00Horrible HistoriesJames HindOliver CromwellhighwaymanThomas AllenJAMES HIND – A Highway Man's Highwayman... Captain James Hind I no longer have young children so the BBC series of “Horrible Histories” has only just come to my attention (I now record them and watch them in guilty secret over my lunch).  I am therefore ashamed to say that this blog is inspired entirely by a “Horrible History” on the seventeenth century highwayman,  Captain James Hind.  The writer in me immediately jumped to the http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HoydensAndFirebrands/~3/5o2gu5_5yqQ/james-hind-highway-mans-highwayman.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Alison Stuart)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HoydensAndFirebrands/~4/5o2gu5_5yqQ" height="1" width="1"/>http://hoydensandfirebrands.blogspot.com/2011/08/james-hind-highway-mans-highwayman.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2404140129284862220.post-8890872207896433606Sun, 31 Jul 2011 07:32:00 +00002011-07-31T08:32:00.412+01:00The Sun King's mistress: guilty or innocent?  Was the Sun King's mistress—Madame de Montespan—guilty or innocent of using Black Magic? This is a debate that has been going on for centuries.   Jean Lemoine is a French historian I admire greatly. I read his Madame de Montespan et la Légende des Poisons (Madame de Montespan and the Legend of the Poisons) eagerly, anxious to know the historian's verdict regarding the guilt or innocence of http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HoydensAndFirebrands/~3/uqjyCE5s1u4/sun-kings-mistress-guilty-or-innocent.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sandra Gulland.)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HoydensAndFirebrands/~4/uqjyCE5s1u4" height="1" width="1"/>http://hoydensandfirebrands.blogspot.com/2011/06/sun-kings-mistress-guilty-or-innocent.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2404140129284862220.post-5473486119949870890Sat, 23 Jul 2011 23:15:00 +00002011-07-24T00:15:00.903+01:00American Civil Warshe-soldier19th centuryA 19th-Century HoydenFellow Hoyden, Alison Stuart, has written an excellent blog about "The Gallant She-Soldier." To add to it, I'm going to take a slight break from the 17th century because I recently found an incredible story of a 19th-century hoyden. Unfortunately, I can't even tell you her name because the reporter in the 1863 Missouri Democrat article withheld it to retain her privacy. He described her in http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HoydensAndFirebrands/~3/zplvUZpPndE/19th-century-hoyden.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kim Murphy)2<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HoydensAndFirebrands/~4/zplvUZpPndE" height="1" width="1"/>http://hoydensandfirebrands.blogspot.com/2011/07/19th-century-hoyden.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2404140129284862220.post-8043132966928545469Sun, 17 Jul 2011 08:08:00 +00002011-07-17T09:08:01.252+01:00The Smuggler SquireThe Smuggler Squire Five and twenty ponies, Trotting through the dark— Brandy for the Parson, ‘Baccy for the Clerk; Them that asks no questions isn’t told a lie— Watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen go by! Rudyard Kipling During the English Civil War, a new tax on domestic consumption, excise, was levied by Parliament to pay for the war. By 1660, this applied to chocolate, coffee, tea, beer, cider and http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HoydensAndFirebrands/~3/7wZ9Unt2qmI/smuggler-squire.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anita Davison)1<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HoydensAndFirebrands/~4/7wZ9Unt2qmI" height="1" width="1"/>http://hoydensandfirebrands.blogspot.com/2011/07/smuggler-squire.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2404140129284862220.post-541536585039675408Mon, 11 Jul 2011 10:31:00 +00002011-07-11T11:33:21.564+01:00Witchcraft and MidwiferyreligionreformationWomen, Witch Persecutions, and Social Change, Part 2"The Evil Wife" by Israhel van Meckenem, 1440/1445-1503A woman, encouraged by a demon, beats her husband with her distaff.PART TWOBy the latter half of the 15th century, the feudal agrarian economy was beginning to crumble, while the capitalist market economy was growing more and more powerful, as did economic competition between men and women. Men active in the market economy tried to further http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HoydensAndFirebrands/~3/QaSLfHFq-GM/women-witch-persecutions-and-social.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mary Sharratt)2<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HoydensAndFirebrands/~4/QaSLfHFq-GM" height="1" width="1"/>http://hoydensandfirebrands.blogspot.com/2011/07/women-witch-persecutions-and-social.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2404140129284862220.post-4290789474894639196Sun, 03 Jul 2011 05:48:00 +00002011-07-07T02:07:10.823+01:00Newcastles lambsSir Thomas FairfaxPrince Rupert Of The RhineMarson MoorghostsThe Ghosts of Marston Moor Monument and Battlefield of Marston Moor My current "work in progress" is a ghost story set in the 1920s, in the shadow of the Great War...a very long way from the seventeenth century but as I play around with the paranormal I thought I would do a blog on the spectral fingers that still reach out from the bloody and violent times of that century. So this month I am leaving South East Asia and http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HoydensAndFirebrands/~3/LLIaQ9PEtr4/ghosts-of-marston-moor.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Alison Stuart)3<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HoydensAndFirebrands/~4/LLIaQ9PEtr4" height="1" width="1"/>http://hoydensandfirebrands.blogspot.com/2011/07/ghosts-of-marston-moor.html