Elizabeth St.John 📚💙📜Author and Historian

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Story writer. Memory curator. #EarlyModern women's history. Lucy Hutchinson got me started. #17thC #HistoricalFiction. Once ventured into the #15thC looking for the missing princes. https://elizabethstjohn.substack.com/ www.elizabethjstjohn.com

When the archives and records fade, the novelist can confidently step through the door and get to work. And it is in that liminal space that all storytelling begins. On my Substack I discuss how I discovered the missing princes for my #historicalfiction. elizabethstjohn.substack.com/p/inside-my-...

Inside My Research: The Day the Princes Were Found

When facts fade, storytelling begins

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400 years ago today, a codfish was gutted at Cambridge Market. 🐟   Inside it was a tiny book containing Protestant texts from the early years of the English Reformation.   Was this a providential message from God, a piece of political propaganda or an elaborate hoax? Music by Julius H. from Pixabay

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The Kearton Brothers (Richard & Cherry): Born in the tiny Swaledale village of Thwaite in the Yorkshire Dales, these farmers' sons are credited by Sir David Attenborough with inventing natural history photography. In 1895, they published British Birds' Nests, the world’s first

This photograph from the 1890s depicts British naturalist brothers Richard and Cherry Kearton using a creative, high-angle tripod setup to photograph a bird's nest.Cherry Kearton (standing on shoulders) was a pioneer of wildlife photography and documentary filmmaking, while his brother Richard often authored their books. They are credited with introducing the "hide" method for observing and photographing birds, significantly contributing to the development of wildlife photography. Image: The Keartons photographing a bird's nest, 1890s. Cherry is on Richard's shoulders. National Media Museum @ Flickr Commons