A week or two ago I mentioned reading Pride and Prejudice on Project Gutenberg. The particular edition that was up on that site had adorable illustrations and illuminated capitals done by an artist named Hugh Thomson. I went looking and discovered that Thomson had illustrated several other books, including one called Highways and Byways in [...]
Category: Scottish history
Saint Margaret of Scotland, a confusing story
Saint Margaret of Scotland fascinates me. I never heard of her until I was reading a lot of mid-20th century British writers. If they mention Scotland, and a lot of them do, she is apt to come up. Her birth date is not clearly known, but is given as around 1045, or perhaps, 1047. Maybe [...]
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