Pavement was one of the two principal market places of medieval York, its importance since earliest times reflected in the fact that it was one of the first paved areas in the city (hence its […]
I’ve been thinking about the past a lot recently. Not the distant past, for once, but my personal past. For more than 20 years, I’ve been writing romances as Jessica Hart, and I’ve just self-published […]
A friend gave me a huge bag of curly-leafed parsley the other day. I love how green and vibrant it is, and I’d forgotten that it has much more flavour than the flat-leafed variety that […]
Walmgate Bar is one of the four great gateways into York and the only one that still retains its barbican. Although Walmgate is a very ancient street, this part of the city was not enclosed […]
I’m thrilled to announce that Time’s Echo is a finalist in the prestigious RITA® contest run by Romance Writers of America®. The RITAs are the romance writing world’s equivalent to the Oscars (or so I’ve […]
Lately the news seems to have been full of exciting archaeological excavations, most notably the discovery of Richard III’s remains under a Leicester car park (as you might imagine, I’m in favour of him being […]
I walk along St Andrewgate almost every time I go into town, and I always think about how often it was mentioned in the wardmote court records. It was a poor parish in the late […]
The last decades of the 16th century saw a sharp rise in indictments for witchcraft. In spite of some scepticism amongst the educated, a belief in the harmful power of sorcery was widespread at the […]
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