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A Slice of Medieval

Sharon Bennett Connolly and Derek Birks

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Derek Birks is an #historicalfiction author who is interested in all matters historical. Sharon Bennett Connolly is a #medieval #historian who writes mainly about women.
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Books and Brews Podcast

Michael Agnew and Laura Vosika

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The Books & Brews Podcast is the place where literature and beer meet. Each month we welcome a new guest author to read and discuss their work. Author Laura Vosika leads in-depth interviews to delve into the motivations, inspirations and preoccupations of each guest. Certified Cicerone® Michael Agnew pours beers specifically selected to pair with the writer’s work. It’s an hour of entertaining erudition that hits your mind and your mouth.
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Robin Hood is one of the most ubiquitous figures in the English-speaking world. He’s been the star of countless films, television shows, books, games, and branded merchandise from baking supplies to investment apps. Whether he’s wearing a dark shrouding hood or a jaunty pointed cap, there’s a distinct image that comes to mind when you hear the name. Our mission is to dissect that image. Through interviews with academics and experts we’ll be taking a focused look on what one would actually ex ...
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This episode is releasing on the cusp of the 2024 U.S. Presidential election. By the time you listen to it, the United States may have elected its first female president (coincidentally the 47th president to go with ItG's 47th episode). That looming election and the way attacks on Kamala Harris mirror the attacks made on politically savvy women of …
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Michael C. Keith is the author of an acclaimed memoir––The Next Better Place–a young adult novel––Life is Falling Sideways––and 20 story collections, including, Of Night and Light, Everything is Epic, Sad Boy, And Through the Trembling Air, Hoag’s Object, The Collector of Tears, If Things Were Made To Last Forever, Caricatures, The Near Enough, Bit…
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What do you get when you combine a body builder known for playing Hercules, some martial arts action, and spaghetti westerns with an Alexandre Dumas novel? Why a Robin Hood movie, of course!!! This was easily the strangest Robin Hood movie that we've seen to date, but a fascinating film to consider in the context of the other films coming out at th…
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How did people in the middle ages perceive the figure of Robin Hood? Did social class or occupation affect those perceptions? How violent were the early stories? Where did the idea come from that Robin Hood wears green? Historian and Robin Hood scholar Will Hoff and I sit down to discuss how Robin Hood was viewed and how he was utilized between the…
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During the 2024 HNS Conference at Dartington Hall in Devon, historian, Sharon Bennett Connolly and historical fiction author, Derek Birks discuss 'How to write fiction about medieval times' with bestselling authors: Elizabeth Chadwick, David Gilman & Matthew Harffy. Music by Adriel Fair licensed from Epidemic Sound…
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Steve Downes is a contemporary Irish poet and novelist, currently living and working in Ireland. Educated in N.U.I. Maynooth, he holds a Degree in Classical History and a Masters in Cultural Anthropology. Steve has published poetry; science fiction, including Cosmogonic Marbles, Temporal Tome, Gadzooks Armageddon and Botolf Tales (the Botolf Chroni…
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Join us as we delve into this Italian film that loosely adapts a French novel that is itself an adaptation of an English story. We never quite figured out how Ivanhoe entered the narrative, but we did get to see one of the most brazen moves from any film version of Robin Hood ever! With Richard Hopkins-Lutz and Leah Kahn. Into the Greenwood is prod…
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Going Rogue again, historian, Sharon Bennett Connolly and historical fiction author, Derek Birks discuss, with novelist SJA Turney, his new Roman series centred upon the general at the forefornt of the conquest of Britain, Gnaeus Julius Agricola. Music by Adriel Fair licensed from Epidemic SoundBy Sharon Bennett Connolly and Derek Birks
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Going Rogue again, historian, Sharon Bennett Connolly and historical fiction author, Derek Birks discuss, with novelist Margaret Skea, her duology which tells the story of the remarkable Katharina von Bora - wife of Martin Luther. Music by Adriel Fair licensed from Epidemic SoundBy Sharon Bennett Connolly and Derek Birks
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Historian, Sharon Bennett Connolly and historical fiction author, Derek Birks are joined by special guest, historical novelist, Anna Belfrage, to discuss the relationship of Edward I and Eleanor of Castile as presented in her Castilian series.Music by Adriel Fair licensed from Epidemic SoundBy Sharon Bennett Connolly and Derek Birks
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Historian, Sharon Bennett Connolly and historical fiction author, Derek Birks discuss Queen Elizabeth's favourite, Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex and his flamboyant sister, Penelope Devereux, with guest author Tony Riches.Music by Adriel Fair licensed from Epidemic SoundBy Sharon Bennett Connolly and Derek Birks
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