Given that Queen Alexandra is slowly being recognised again more and more- you can find her Consort of the Month post here– I thought it was the perfect time to share this post again in time for the holidays, as it is one of the […] The post Queen Alexandra’s Christmas Gift Book appeared first on An Historian About Town ..read more

With the release of the first season of The Crown in 2015, the House of Windsor has been an exponentially more popular topic, and they were not unpopular prior to that. However, one of the most interesting members of the modern royal family has been […] The post Consort of the Month: Alexandra of Denmark appeared first on An Historian About Town ..read more

While the holiday season is incredibly busy for all of us in a myriad of ways, it is still nice to take a few moments here and there for ourselves. And for me, that usually takes the form of reading for a few minutes each […] The post Holiday Book Bite: Skipping Christmas appeared first on An Historian About Town ..read more

The Royal Family has entrenched themselves in Christmas celebrations in Christmas and across the Commonwealth. They aren’t responsible for creating or inventing these traditions but they do popularise them. (Of course, this is in addition to celebrating the regular local traditions from that region and […] The post The History of Tudor Christmas appeared first on An Historian About Town ..read more

Processions and parades have been a part of the holiday season for centuries. Depending on where you live, you might take part as a child, as an adult, or both. It might be connected to a particular saint’s day or a local tradition, oftentimes a […] The post The History of Santa Claus Parades appeared first on An Historian About Town ..read more

Well, it is hard to believe it, but we find ourselves at the beginning of Blogmas 2023! It will come as no surprise to return readers that this is my favourite time of year for the blog. I find holiday history endlessly fascinating, and I […] The post Blogmas 2023 appeared first on An Historian About Town ..read more

As Mary, Queen of Scots remains one of my favourite historical figures, I don’t think that it will surprise anyone that her mother is one of my favourite consorts. Mary obviously takes the spotlight in almost all cases with an incredibly dramatic life and reign, […] The post Consort of the Month: Marie de Guise appeared first on An Historian About Town ..read more

The Regency period is always a popular choice for fiction. We see it with fiction à la Jane Austen-inspired books, we see it with romance à la Bridgerton. However, we do not see it that often in mysteries. I was very excited to see a […] The post Book Bite: Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Lord appeared first on An Historian About Town ..read more

I have truly been enjoying doing the research for this Court Painters series. Many of these enduring portraits have become our mental image of many historic royals. And while they clearly made these portraits to last, I do not know that they expected them to […] The post Court Painters: Winterhalter appeared first on An Historian About Town ..read more

As of the time that this post is publishing, we will be in the midst of the second season of The Gilded Age. While most of the characters in the show are fictional, there are some who were historical figures in New York at that […] The post Book Bite: Astor by Anderson Cooper appeared first on An Historian About Town ..read more