HNR Issue 38 (November 2006)
Dark Hour
Based on events related in 2 Chronicles 21-23, Dark Hour tells of Jezebel’s daughter Athaliah, who massacred all the heirs…
Deborah’s Story
Like her mother before her, Deborah is slave to an abusive master. And like her mother, she has the gift…
Lionheart And Lackland And The Wars Of Conquest
This is a scholarly but somehow nostalgic look at the “Devil’s Brood”, the quarrelsome sons of Henry II and Eleanor…
Medieval Obscenities
Yes, it’s expensive, but you know you’re in for some fun as soon as you look at the cover illustration…
The Great Match Race
On May 27, 1823, 60,000 people crammed into the Union Course on Long Island, New York, eager to see a…
Sins Of The Innocent
A reader of a European memoir set during World War II has certain expectations – intrigue, deprivation, narrow escapes from…
The Last Revolution: 1688 and the Creation of the Modern World
The Revolution of 1688 has been called ‘bloodless’. On the whole the description holds. But as Patrick Dillon’s fascinating book…
A Scented Palace: The Secret History Of Marie-Antoinette’s Perfumer
Jean-Louis Fargeon, son of a perfumer in the scent-rich town of Montpellier, France, apprenticed well and took his trade to…
The Black Hole: Money, Myth And Empire
In 1756 the Nawab of Bengal besieged the British East India Company’s fort in Calcutta and 146 people were imprisoned…
It Wakes In Me
In what is now west-central Florida in prehistoric times, Sora, the leader of Black Falcon Nation, is suspected of multiple…
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