I don’t normally write about personal family things, but since I have ‘grandmother’ in my bio for this blog, I thought it was high time I introduced you to our granddaughter. She was three this month. The Gossips’ Choice was dedicated to my daughter who became a new mother in the same year the novel, […]
Read moreIn the era since the Brexit referendum and other political upheavals home and abroad, the phrase fake news is seldom out of earshot. Yet is is nothing new. In this video, filmed on site at the National Civil War Centre in Newark, we explore the fake stories published in the 1640s that Father Christmas had […]
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In August 1643 a group of women gathered outside Parliament to protest about the civil wars. Find out more about events and the tragic twist that saw a woman, not directly involved in the protest, die at the hands of a rogue soldier.
Read moreIn 1643 a noble woman Brilliana, Lady Harley had to defend her home from a Royalist siege. Learn more about this extraordinary woman living in extraordinary times in this 3 minute film.
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If reading The Gossips’ Choice has made you curious about childbirth in the seventeenth century and you’ve a few minutes free with a cuppa, have a watch of this short presentation, Sara.
Read moreIn June 2020, I sat down for a lovely chat about The Gossips’ Choice for the Crown Chronicles website. You can watch it below or read more from their website.
Read moreLast month (January 2021) I gave a lecture at Darwin College, Cambridge as part of their annual lecture series. The theme this year is blood. My lecture was entitled, ‘Transitional Bleeding in Early Modern England’. I hope you enjoy it, Sara.
Read moreHow women and the moon intertwine in literature This is a republication of my co-authored article published by The Conversation on 18.07.19 read the original here. Sara Read, Loughborough University and Catie Gill, Loughborough University In the late 17th century, the female English playwright Aphra Behn wrote a smash hit play about a man obsessed […]
Read moreIn the festive episode of Loughborough University’s School of Poetry Podcast, I was invited to chat about festive verse with presenter Dr Oliver Tearle and Dr Barbara Cooke. For the ‘So bad it’s good’ segment, I picked a history in verse written during the English Civil Wars era. The poem is not primarily about Christmas […]
Read moreI was delighted to be asked back to Andrea Zuvich’s ‘The Seventeenth Century Lady’ blog for a short chat about anachronisms and bloopers in works of historical fiction. You can read our conversation here. Andrea’s latest book A Year in the Life of Stuart Britain (2016) is available to buy in hardback or on Kindle
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