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History & Film | Not Whether to Be, But Who: Rewriting Ophelia
WRITTEN BY MISTY URBAN In Ms. Scheide’s Honors English study of Hamlet, my group was assigned to present Act V. I was ...Read Article
Sing, Muse, of the Women: Natalie Haynes’s A Thousand Ships
An old story can experience new life when told from a different perspective – and the Trojan War is a very old story. Perhaps ...Read Article
Daily conversations: Betrayal of a Republic by Joost Douma
Based on years of academic research, Joost Douma’s novel Betrayal of a Republic: Memoirs of a Roman Matrona (Histria Books, 2020) tells the ...Read Article
God & Mammon: Ben Hopkins’s Cathedral
WRITTEN BY SARAH BOWER There is money in Ben Hopkins’ family, academically speaking at least. His grandfather was an economic historian and his ...Read Article
Uncovering Coco Chanel’s Hidden History: The Chanel Sisters by Judithe Little
Throughout her life Coco Chanel lied about her upbringing. Judithe Little, author of The Chanel Sisters (Graydon House, 2020), had always imagined Coco as “...Read Article
“Foreigners aren’t Fish”: The Last Tea Bowl Thief by Jonelle Patrick
Jonelle Patrick, author of The Last Tea Bowl Thief (Street Books, October 2020), a time slip novel that moves between modern and 18th-century Japan, ...Read Article
Infectious Diseases in History Other Than Influenza
Everyone is reaching exhaustion point over dealing with Covid-19, but despite that, I want to offer the promised continuation of the series on ...Read Article
New books by Historical Novel Society members, November 2020
The HNS congratulates our author members on their new releases! If you’ve written a historical novel or nonfiction work published (or to ...Read Article
Black Life Richly Embroidered: Physical and Spiritual Colonisation in 19th-Century South Africa
WRITTEN BY WANDA WYPORSKA Marguerite Poland is a multi-award winning South African author, with a fine range of books for children, novels (including ...Read Article
Passion, Spirit & Humour: Kate Grenville’s A Room Made of Leaves
WRITTEN BY BETHANY LATHAM If we played word association and I said “Australia’s colonial period,” most responses might be “convict.” Yet there ...Read Article