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The Czar
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Post by The Czar » Wed May 25th, 2011, 10:50 pm

19th century Russia. Right now, life is just a series of fabulous balls and soirees... but the French Grand Armee is coming...
Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times. This arises from the fact that they are produced by men who ever have been, and ever shall be, animated by the same passions, and thus they necessarily have the same results.
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Madeleine
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Currently reading: "The Rising Tide" by Ann Cleeves
Preferred HF: Plantagenets, Victorian, crime, dual time-frame
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Post by Madeleine » Thu June 2nd, 2011, 10:17 am

Modern day Whitby, North Yorkshire, running a B & B.
Currently reading "The Rising Tide" by Ann Cleeves
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Post by fljustice » Thu June 2nd, 2011, 3:30 pm

Kabul, Afghanistan trying to survive the civil war.
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Currently reading: The Farm at the Edge of the World by Sarah Vaughan
Interest in HF: The first historical novel I read was Katherine by Anya Seton and this sparked off my interest in this genre.
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Post by Vanessa » Thu June 2nd, 2011, 4:26 pm

I'm in India in 1947 and 1856.
currently reading: My Books on Goodreads

Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind
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Post by EC2 » Thu June 2nd, 2011, 10:30 pm

A kitchen in a London home in 1910, eating bubble and squeak.
Les proz e les vassals
Souvent entre piez de chevals
Kar ja li coard n’I chasront

'The Brave and the valiant
Are always to be found between the hooves of horses
For never will cowards fall down there.'
Histoire de Guillaume le Mareschal

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Post by Wulfric of Mercia » Tue June 7th, 2011, 8:38 pm

Somewhere in 9th century France (Frankia). King Louis just died and looks like its going to be a rough road to a successor.
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Post by BrianPK » Tue June 7th, 2011, 9:57 pm

North west Scotland circa 1500AD with James IV, trying to sort out troublesome Highlanders (as usual) and finally deny their leaders the coveted title of Lord of the Isles.
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Post by EC2 » Wed June 8th, 2011, 5:23 pm

All over the place - I'm reading 3 books at once!

1. I'm in a 17thC haunted field in which an apparition is searching for his eyeballs.

2. I'm a 70 year old woman hiding in a house in Cape Cod with a baby.

3. I'm Eleanor of Aquitaine and I'm 15 years old (although acting like a rather mature woman of the world) forsooth so I am!
Les proz e les vassals
Souvent entre piez de chevals
Kar ja li coard n’I chasront

'The Brave and the valiant
Are always to be found between the hooves of horses
For never will cowards fall down there.'
Histoire de Guillaume le Mareschal

www.elizabethchadwick.com
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Post by donroc » Wed June 8th, 2011, 5:59 pm

[quote=""Wulfric of Mercia""]Somewhere in 9th century France (Frankia). King Louis just died and looks like its going to be a rough road to a successor.[/quote]

I am there too. Should complete the first draft of my WIP set during years 819-847 in the Carolingian Empire and Emirate of Cordoba in a few days.

Best of luck with your efforts.
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Bodo the Apostate, a novel set during the reign of Louis the Pious and end of the Carolingian Empire.

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Currently reading: The Farm at the Edge of the World by Sarah Vaughan
Interest in HF: The first historical novel I read was Katherine by Anya Seton and this sparked off my interest in this genre.
Favourite HF book: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell!
Preferred HF: Any
Location: North Yorkshire, UK

Post by Vanessa » Thu June 9th, 2011, 11:24 am

It's 1189 and I, Lady Alix of Wanthwaite, am on my way to London disguised as a boy. Soothly, I am accompanied by a cunning Scot, none other than Lord Enoch Angus Boggs of Dingle-Boggs, and being chased by a knight by the name of Magnus Barefoot who wants my head on a spike! Oh woe is me!!
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