Historical Romance music video – Taylor Swift

I’ve heard this song on the radio (by Taylor Swift), but only just discovered that it has a part-historical romance video.
Take a look: the costumes are a bit odd. The man seems to be in regency, but the woman (Taylor Swift) is in Georgian….well still a good video anyway!

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‘Young, posh and loaded’ – the original Grand Tourists

Kevin McCloud’s Grand Tour is a new four part TV series on Channel 4, and part 1 aired last Sunday evening. In the programme, Kevin retraces the steps of the early 17th & 18th century aristocratic adventurers, who were shipped off to Europe in the historical equivalent of the gap year to learn about life, [...]

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Historical social attitudes

I found this interesting article on the Daily Mail website about the Queen Mother:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1214573/The-Queen-Mother-That-spiteful-old-soak-dedicated-making-lives-hell.html
Whether or not you believe what the article says is up to you. However, it does make some very interesting points about social attitudes of the aristocracy and royalty and the pressures they were under, especially in the past.
It also shows that [...]

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A rush to tie the knot in Gretna

Last thursday was 9th September, a date that sparked a rush of weddings in Gretna Green. The special date (9/9/9) was predicted to be particularly popular with UK emergency service workers planning on getting married. (For those who may not know, 999 is the UK telephone number for fire, police and ambulance services)
47 marriages were [...]

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Loves Me, Loves Me Not – Great Short Stories from the RNA

If you enjoy short stories, such as Elizabeth Hanbury’s Midsummer Eve at Rookery End (reviewed in the previous post), look out for Loves Me, Loves Me Not. It’s an anthology of short stories by members of the Romantic Novelists’ Association in celebration of its fiftieth anniversary.
It’s a beautifully produced book with over forty stories in a variety of [...]

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Midsummer Eve at Rookery End – Review

There is a great review of Elizabeth Hanbury’s anthology “Midsummer Eve at Rookery End” here:
http://lastexilewords.blogspot.com/2009/09/book-review-midsummer-eve-at-rookery.html
Of course, here at E-Scape Press we loved Elizabeth’s stories as soon as we read them, so a good review just echo’s what we already knew!

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Bath, Regency Style

 

If you’re in Bath on 19th September 2009 between 11am and 12.30pm, you may be forgiven for thinking you’ve been transported back to Regency times.
It’s the Grand Regency Promenade, a regular feature of the annual Jane Austen Festival, and this year there’ll be an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the ‘Largest gathering of [...]

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Midsummer Eve at Rookery End re-release

E-scape Press are proud to announce the re-release of Midsummer Eve at Rookery End by Elizabeth Hanbury in paperback.
We are moving all our current and future titles to Print-On-Demand and Midsummer Eve is our first to be done.
Print on demand is a much greener way of producing books because – er, well only copies that [...]

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Georgette Heyer, Sourcebooks and the art of cover design

As a long time fan of Georgette Heyer, and a collector of various editions of her books, it was great to see that US publishers Sourcebooks Casablanca are issuing reprints of GH’s titles in paperback (see above). The UK Arrow reprints have been around for some time now and, sad person that I [...]

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