Hoydens & Firebrands

Roaring Ladies Who Write About The Seventeenth Century

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Sunday, 24 August 2014

Margaret [Peg] Hughes Prince Rupert's last Love

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Margaret [Peg] Hughes Actresses first appeared on the English stage in 1629, when a troupe of French players gave a performances at B...
Sunday, 10 August 2014

Moon Time

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Photo by Orion 8 In Virginia, on March 22, 1622 , and again on April 18, 1644, paramount chief Opechancanough arranged attacks killing s...
Sunday, 3 August 2014

William and Benedict Arnold: Rhode Island’s Borgias?

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The Borgias The House of Borgia rose to political and ecclesiastical prominence during the Italian Renaissance. Though the Borgias we...
Sunday, 20 July 2014

The Windsor Nell Gwynn Knew

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As royal mistresses go, Nell Gwynn is probably our most favourite of King Charles II's mistresses - and with good reason. This saucy, fu...
Saturday, 12 July 2014

1650: The FIRST attorney general in America -- a firebrand

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Engaged for the people, by, or in the peoples' name William Dyer, the son of a yeoman farmer from a village near Boston, Lincoln...
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