Sharon Turner spent fifty-three years thinking about Richard III before writing his epic poem, published only two years before his death. This was much to the chagrin of John Lingard, who complained that ‘For he is seventy-seven, and a man...
In 2015 the hype around DNA in Richard III’s history was still relatively new, and (like much of my work) I wrote this opinion piece out of annoyance. It seemed like suddenly DNA could solve everything and history was unimportant...
The first time I saw Jane Austen described as a ‘prose Shakespeare’ it struck me as absolute perfection. It was George Henry Lewes, in the 19th century, that gave her the epithet, although he attributed it to Thomas Babington Macaulay,...
