We reach the end of our run-through of the real-life characters in Mercia’s adventures with the top spot going to John Winthrop, Jr, early Puritan pioneer and long-time Governor of Connecticut, a man of learning,…
The number four slot in my top ten characters list goes to the third of the regicides to flee to America, where despite his wanted status he was able to live openly under an assumed…
Next in my series touching on the real-life characters from the Mercia Blakewood novels we look at two men, the father-in-law and son-in-law regicides who fled England to escape death, only to end up living…
Welcome to my new series looking at the enthralling lives of the real-life characters in the Mercia Blakewood trilogy! The novels may be fiction, but they’re set in a real historical context featuring some of…