Tag: Mary Queen of Scots
Quick Question, 18 April 2017
Hello, all! I hope that you had a lovely Easter weekend and that you are having a great week. We are over halfway done April, which seems a little astounding to me…
The Secrets of Edinburgh Castle
When I lived in Ireland, my mom came to visit me for a week! It was a jam packed week and we did quite a few things, but one of my favourite parts was our trip to Edinburgh. For anyone who is interested in Royal […]
I probably know more about the royal families of Europe than most people know about their own
For as long as I can remember, I have been fascinated by royals. When I was in elementary school, I would take biographies of royals out and keep notebooks of facts about them. (I’m not sure why it took me a term of university to […]
I have started giving up. Good for me!
I started reading The Captive Queen of Scots (Jean Plaidy), one of my Books-I-Own-That-I-Need-To-Read. And I just stopped reading The Captive Queen of Scots. I have had a bad habit of forcing myself to soldier on through books that I am just to say I finished the […]
Most people I want to meet have been dead for quite some time
As a historian of early medieval Ireland, I spend a lot of my time with dead people. Bishops, monks, kings, warriors. Factor in my love of royal biographies, and that’s a whole whackload more of dead people. Until science advances or magic makes a solid comeback, I will just keep reading books about them.
People I want to meet when time travel becomes a thing:
