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The Covent Garden Ladies by Hallie Rubenhold

29 October 2020 By Editor

In 1757, a down-and-out Irish poet, the head waiter at the Shakespear’s Head Tavern in Covent Garden, and a celebrated London courtesan became bound together by the publication of a little book: Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladies. This salacious work – detailing the names and ‘specialities’ of the capital’s sex-workers – became one of […]

The Five by Hallie Rubenhold

30 January 2020 By Editor

Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge, Wolverhampton, Sweden and Wales. They wrote ballads, ran coffee houses, lived on country estates, they breathed ink-dust from printing presses and escaped people-traffickers. What they had in common was the year of their […]

Historia’s books of the year for 2019

16 December 2019 By Editor

Whether you prefer reading historical fiction or non-fiction (or both, why not?), we hope you’ll find something to surprise, delight or intrigue you in this round-up of books featured in Historia during 2019. So if you’re looking for a Christmas present for a history lover or a good read for the long winter nights, have […]

The Five by Hallie Rubenhold

28 February 2019 By Editor

Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge, Wolverhampton, Sweden and Wales. They wrote ballads, ran coffee houses, lived on country estates, they breathed ink-dust from printing presses and escaped people-traffickers. What they had in common was the year of their […]

Historia Interviews: Hallie Rubenhold

2 October 2015 By Katherine Clements

Billed as the raunchiest costume drama of the year, The Scandalous Lady W caught the nation’s attention when it aired on BBC Two in August this year. Based on the book Lady Worsley’s Whim by HWA’s own Hallie Rubenhold, the true story of the Worsleys’ calamitous marriage and subsequent court trial was one of the […]

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