Using Fact in Fiction
Discover how author Nathan Dylan Goodwin uses real genealogy and historical facts in his fictional writing.
Fact from Fiction: What the Great 19th Century Novels Can Tell Us About Our Ancestors
For over a hundred years, the works of the great 19th century novelists have entertained, intrigued and amused us.
Mr Atkinson’s Rum Contract
An eighteenth-century genealogical odyssey, starting with a tumbledown house and a cardboard box full of old letters, culminating in the present day with the ruins of a Jamaican sugar estate and the results of a DNA test.
Medieval Study Day: Interview with Ian Mortimer
We tend to think of the Middle Ages as a dark, backward and unchanging time characterised by violence, ignorance and superstition. By contrast we believe progress arose from science and technological innovation, and that inventions of recent centuries created the modern world. We couldn’t be more wrong.