
No wonder he was a keeper! We're 30 years too next April, but my other half wouldn't have a clue where to source the books I'm interested in!
Really enjoying Poldark, it's a favourite time period of mine.
Turner wrote one of the essays in the John and Magna Carta book I haven't started yet and I noticed one apparent mistake just dipping into it. After what you've just said I will be reading it cautiously.EC2 wrote:Ralph Turner biography of Eleanor of Aquitaine - meh to the latter. There have been several historical bloopers and it's all 'May have' and 'Probably' and 'Doubtless' which means he is just best guessing and sometimes making a crappy mess of doing it by choosing the least best guess IMO. He also massively relies on secondary sources, same as he did in his bio of King John. So I'm a tad irritated.