During the Regency era (and prior to...and after) there was strict social ladder upon which one fell. It was hard to climb said ladder, but ...

Though she was once a celebrity whose likeness could be spotted in shop windows everywhere, Sarah, Lady Archer, has more or less fallen from...

My latest short story, "Laid to Rest" is set in 1957. I love the 50's and going back to that era is amazing. Today I'm go...

If you’re anything like me, you have a box filled with either family photo albums or loose pictures.   Every now and then you sort through ...

Sometimes, I think I spend too much time reading non-fiction history. I realized this the other day when a friend of mine asked me why Que...

  By Alice Brilmayer, aka Alice Gaines Probably the oldest thing I own is a silhouette in cross-stitch that my mother did when she w...

(Reposted with slight alterations from my personal blog .) I've been saying for years, ever since I turned into a Napoleonic Wars mili...

By  Erastes He was a withdrawn, silent and lonely man, greatly slandered in his lifetime, probably by his victims and their friends....

 It's a truth universally acknowledged... that Jane Austen knew her stuff. No question. If you doubt me, read these extracts from ...

First off, I want to say hello.  This is my first post here at Romancing the Past and I'm thrilled to be here. I don't live in Eng...

If there’s one thing at which the British excel, it’s inventing nicknames. (My favorite will always be the twentieth-century brain child of...

Recently, I moved a ton of books from my den into my writing. In the process of moving, I came across book I've had for many years. Rev...

The modern idea of romantic love, as the most causal of history buffs know, has not been well embraced across the ages.   Over the centu...

That’s what all my friends ask me. “How do you do it? How do you write so many stories? How do you consistently put out huge numbers of...