The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
A great deal of garbage has been written regarding 1950s American murderer and ‘body snatcher’/graverobber Ed Gein. Gein (born in 1906) grew up in Plainfield in Wisconsin under the thumb of an - allegedly - religious zealot of a mother; she was his entire world and...
What first attracted you to the period or periods you work in? The mystery. Was Mary Queen of Scots really guilty? Come to think of it, was Anne Boleyn? (because, let’s face it, you don’t make the pathologically egotistical Henry VIII look like a complete and utter...
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Mickey Mayhew, your new book covers the final days of the Romanovs, focusing on their imprisonment in the Alexander Palace. What drove you to dig into these few months specifically? I have been fascinated by the Romanovs since picking up a biography on Rasputin in...
Almost as feted a family as the Tudors, the name conjures images of decadent royal Russia, of grizzled Siberian sorcerers and beautiful princesses (or grand duchesses), bejewelled palaces and icy, splendid St Petersburg. Although their reign spanned some several...
