Joanne Major
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Historical non-fiction author for @penswordbooks ǀ MA @UofLWriting @unilincoln ǀ Latest publication – Kitty Fisher: The First Female Celebrity
Lincoln, England
Joined May 2013
Discover one of history’s most famous courtesans, Kitty Fisher: The First Female Celebrity. Review: 'If time travel could be achieved. video clips of Kitty's horsing accident in the Mall would have broken the internet, shut TikTok down, gone viral.'.
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Enjoyed visiting the Lincoln 1940s weekend (photos taken in between the showers). Mr and Mrs Churchill were excellent, as always. #1940s #lincolnshire
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🍓🎾 Strawberries and Cream: a Wimbledon tradition with a long history. 🎾🍓. #Wimbledon2025 #Wimbledon #strawberriesandcream #MondayBlogs .
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With Wimbledon in full swing, thoughts – naturally – turn towards that perennial British summer favourite, fresh strawberries and cream.
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New on my blog: Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. On 20 June 1887, Queen Victoria held a garden party on the grounds of Buckingham Palace. Fifty years earlier, William IV had died and the eighteen-year-old Princess Victoria took the crown. #QueenVictoria.
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Despite Queen Victoria writing that it had been a ‘very fatiguing day, in the Garden at Buckingham Palace, where I used to sit so often in former happy days,’ her journal suggests that she spent...
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'She tumbled from her horse and the press loved the idea of a fallen woman, falling. Overnight, Kitty became a sensation.'. From my blog archives: Kitty Fisher and Joseph Salvador. #georgianera #18thcentury #womenshistory.
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She tumbled from her horse and the press loved the idea of a fallen woman, falling. Overnight, Kitty became a sensation.
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RT @amy_lilwall: I'm running a walking writing workshop at Newark Book Festival on Sunday 13th July. 🚶♂️🚶♀️🚶 Bit concerned about writing….
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Get ready to Write the World, in this family-friendly walk and writing workshop around Newark, with author and lecturer Amy Lilwall.
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The Operation Manna memorial at The International Bomber Command Centre. What is not visible from a photo is how the Lancaster moves in the wind, a detail that is so evocative.
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RT @RosannaMcGlone: Interested in history? Want to learn how to write historical fiction? I'm the pinprick in a sky of luminaries at @book_….
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RT @RosannaMcGlone: Please come to some of these events ( including mine 🤣)🙏 The lovely organisers have worked very hard & are v worried re….
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RT @penswordbooks: 🔉 New on the blog from @longshippub ✍🏻. Searching for the Last King of Anglo-Saxon England, Harold Godwinson, England’s….
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RT @ChrisRoyDenton: The ancient strong box used to store the silver communion plate at St Wulfram’s Church in Grantham alongside a poster a….
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The Green Man of Brighton, or the Bath Bugabo: Amongst the visitors this season is an original, or would-be original, generally known by the appellation of ‘The Green Man.’ He is dressed in green pantaloons, green waistcoat, green frock, green cravat.
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Among the personages here attracting public notice, is an original, or would-be original, generally known by the appellation of ‘The Green Man.’ He is dressed in green pantaloons, green waistcoat,...
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For a limited time, A History of the Dukes of Bolton is 99p on #Kindle. It charts the fascinating history of a great ducal family but, more than that, it documents the English Civil Wars, the Restoration, the Monmouth Rebellion, and the Hanoverian dynasty.
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RT @roseservitova: I am thrilled to announce, in this special 250th anniversary year, that I will be speaking all things #TheWatsons at thi….
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From my blog archives: Who Was She? A Mysterious Stranger in Regency Clerkenwell. 'Around early July 1819, a pretty woman thought to be in her early 20s turned up at a lodging house in George Court off Aylesbury Street in Clerkenwell. '.
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Around early July 1819, a pretty woman thought to be in her early 20s turned up at a lodging house in George Court off Aylesbury Street in Clerkenwell. She told the owner that she was a stranger in...
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Review: "This really is a case of 'you couldn't make it up.' The plots may seem to come straight out of the world of Regency Romance, but they are all true." For a limited time, you can buy A Right Royal Scandal on #Kindle for just 99p.
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The latest on my blog is a guest post by my fellow @penswordbooks author, @longshippub who has shared an excerpt from her brilliant new book, Searching for the Last Anglo-Saxon King: Harold Godwinson, England's Golden Warrior.
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The following excerpt from Searching for the Last Anglo-Saxon King talks about an illness that struck Harold down as a young man when he was Earl of East Anglia. This story only appears in the...
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For readers in the UK, All Things #Georgian: Tales from the Long #EighteenthCentury is currently a bargain 99p on #Kindle. Discover the bonesetter, ‘Crazy Sally,’ an aristocratic ‘Queen of Smugglers,’ actors, royalty, criminals, and more.
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RT @cathiedunn: I'm delighted to welcome dear author friend Paula Lofting to Ruins & Reading. We're sharing an interesting post linked to….
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