To The Fair Land on Tour!

This week, 26 April to 2 May 2021, To The Fair Land is on a blog tour, covering twenty one blogs in seven days with a mix of articles, author q and as, extracts and reviews.

You can follow the tour here:-

26 April 2021

Quirky Book Reads - Review

Kellyschuknecht.com - Meet the Author

Proud Book Reviews - Review

27 April 2021

Satisfaction for Insatiable Readers - Excerpt

Cup of Toast - Interview

33 South Textworks - Review

28 April 2021

Chez Maximka - Review

B for BookReview - Author Q and A

Everywhere & Nowhere - Excerpt

29 April 2021

What Cathy Read Next - Review

Historical Fiction With Spirit - Guest Blog - The Burney Family and To The Fair Land

The Story Scribbler - Review (Instagram)

30 April 2021

Northern Reader - Review

The Magic of Wor(l)ds - Q and A

@theb00kreader - Instagram

1 May 2021

Rev Rebecca Writes: Eat, Write, Pray - Review

Jess Bookish Life - Review

Bibliostatic

2 May 2021

Bookwormsina - Review (Instagram)

Ceri's Little Blog - Review

DonnasBookBlog - Q and A

Thank you to all the bloggers and Instagrammers who took part!

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'We will have a fire': arson during eighteenth-century enclosures

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From Hogarth to Rowlandson: Medicine in Art in Eighteenth Century Britain, Fiona Haslam, (Liverpool University Press, 1996)

I’m often asked about how I go about doing the research for my historical novels. One of the sources I usually mention is visual art. I’ve always found that looking at contemporary paintings, prints, sketches, sculpture and so on reveals a wealth of information about how people of the past lived – what they wore, what sort of houses they lived in, how they spent their time, the towns and villages they inhabited. Going to an art gallery is one of my favourite research trips – especially if there’s a decent café with tea and cake at the end of an afternoon’s study! Of course, you don’t always have to take artistic representations literally. It’s obvious that whatever you’re looking at is an interpretation of the reality: it’s how the artist saw it. In fact, this subjectivity can be a real advantage if you’re looking for ideas about how people lived and thought. Often the most exaggerated representations, such as satirical prints or caricature, are the most revealing, telling us thi...

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