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Amy Licence: historian of the lives of Medieval, Tudor and early modern women; nineteenth and early twentieth century art, history, literature and culture; writer of literary ficton.

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Friday, 9 May 2014

There's More to Thomas More than meets the Eye.

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Who was Richard III’s greatest enemy? The obvious answer might be Henry Tudor, Henry VII, who defeated and killed the last Yorkist King...

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Monday, 18 November 2013

A Modernist Voice from the Warsaw Ghetto

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Everyday Jews: Scenes from a Vanished Life Yehoshue Perle The New Yiddish Library, October 15 2013 Hailed as a mod...

Tuesday, 25 June 2013

“It is the spectator, not life, that art really mirrors:” Does The White Queen have any responsibility towards its viewers?

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With over 5 million viewers in the UK tuning in for the first episode of The White Queen last Sunday, fresh debates have been sparked over...

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Friday, 31 August 2012

Women as Angels and Devils: Every Sixteenth Century Man's Nightmare

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Check out my guest blog on On the Tudor Trail. Read how women were depicted in literature in the medieval and Tudor period and how this m...

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Amy Licence: Writing about medieval and Tudor history, with a particular interest in women's lives and experiences. I'm the author of twenty-eight books and have also written for The Guardian, TLS, BBC History website, The New Statesman, The Huffington Post, The English Review and The London Magazine. I've appeared in TV documentaries and have been interviewed numerous times live on radio. I've been shortlisted twice for the Asham Award for women's short fiction and my historical novels have met with acclaim. @PrufrocksPeach

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