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Kilmartin Glen: Where Scotland Was Born

Kilmartin Glen: Where Scotland Was Born

The author of The Chronicles of Iona looks to one part of the British Isles that was at the forefront of progress in the period.

Kilmartin Glen: Where Scotland was born After an ambitious redevelopment project, the award-winning Kilmartin House Museum is set to reopen this summer, promising exciting new insights into the internationally-important archaeological landscape of Kilmartin Glen....

Who Was Saint Columba?

Who Was Saint Columba?

The past is a foreign country, and none more so than those Dark Ages in the wake of the departure of the Roman presence.

The British Isles of the sixth century are, in many ways, an undiscovered country. In fact, a paucity of surviving primary sources make the period largely undiscoverable, even though it is nestled between the fall of Rome and the rise of the Christian Church, both of...

Episode 102

Episode 102

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Iron and Gold: An Aspects of History Short Story Collection

Iron and Gold: An Aspects of History Short Story Collection

Our first collection features bestselling and acclaimed novelists.
Camilla Bolton

Iron & Gold is a distinctive collection of six short stories which span the Middle Ages. There is an overwhelming narrative of honour, integrity, love and timelessness which unite these tales. Additionally, there are interviews with each of the authors after each...

Episode 102

Paula de Fougerolles

Paula de Fougerolles discusses historical fiction and her writing.

Paula de Fougerolles, what prompted you to choose the period that you wrote your first book in? I’ve known since I was a child that I wanted to write novels set in the so-called “Dark Ages”—the early-mediaeval period. It’s just always been my thing. It’s as if I can...

Saint Columba & Aedan: To Dunadd, Citadel of Kings

Saint Columba & Aedan: To Dunadd, Citadel of Kings

The author of The Chronicles of Iona writes about the hillfort of Dunadd, seat of Aedan, King of Dal Riata.

If Saint Columba is one of the stars of my series The Chronicles of Iona, Aedan mac Gabran is surely the other. He was the king of the Scots kingdom of Dalriada in the 6th century and was arguably the greatest warlord of his age. In fact, my lightbulb moment in...

Episode 102

Paula de Fougerolles

Paula de Fougerolles is an award-winning novelist and mediaeval historian. As a Thomas J. Watson Fellow, she crisscrossed Europe on a year-long travelling fellowship in search of a first-hand, immersive understanding of the landscape, material cultures, and remains of early-mediaeval Europe. A subsequent Ph.D. from the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic, University of Cambridge, gave her both a thorough and a wide-ranging mastery of the early histories, languages, and literatures of the peoples of the British Isles and Ireland. She draws on both to animate her award-winning historical-fiction series The Chronicles of Iona.
Paula de Fougerolles

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