Imogen Hermes Gowar

An amazing opportunity to work with wonderful writer and teacher of historical fiction, @girlhermes.bsky.social! ✒️📚📖 #HistFic #BookSky

How to Write Historical Fiction (12-week course) Bring the past to life and receive personalised feedback to write compelling historical fiction in this online tutored course.

I'm teaching a 12 week course for the amazing @writerscentre.bsky.social - do join me in September if that's your jam: nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/events/how-t...

How to Write Historical Fiction (12-week course) Bring the past to life and receive personalised feedback to write compelling historical fiction in this online tutored course.

Ah thank you Anna! Lucky I checked in for the first time in ages. No course this September as I'm doing one for @writerscentre.bsky.social instead:
nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/events/how-t...

Writing the Past is back in January!

Medieval Chivalry Chivalry was more than medieval knights in shining armour jousting for the love of fair ladies. This course explores how chivalric values profoundly shaped political, literary and artistic cultures fr...

Pleased to say @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social have commissioned a new live online course from me for summer 2026 onward! Medieval Chivalry for 10 weeks! Chat with me weekly! lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/medi... Please share.

Just putting this out there… books.google.co.uk/books?id=UVk...

A.I. Is Poised to Rewrite History. Literally.

Lots of commentary on this piece already, all of which I agree with.

For historians, research is a fundamental part of writing.

To farm it out to AI changes the nature of this intellectual process in fundamental ways.

And as Stacy Schiff points out, it also takes all the fun out of it.

ON TOP of the ethical reasons to not use AI, it's also
1) bad at what it does
2) literally makes you stupider
3) has HUGE environmental costs: every search is equivalent to pouring out an entire bottle of water. It's not worth it to generate a cutesy emoji or have it write an error-riddled draft.

It is deeply hilarious that the Hudson's Bay Company was founded in 1670 and chugged along for three and a half centuries and Private Equity finished it off in like five years.

How to Write Historical Fiction (12-week course) Bring the past to life and receive personalised feedback to write compelling historical fiction in this online tutored course.

I'm teaching a 12 week course for the amazing @writerscentre.bsky.social - do join me in September if that's your jam: nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/events/how-t...

Yes, huge laugh-to-page ratio. I've never reviewed something I loved so wholeheartedly.

I could have written five times the word count, it was so enjoyable and beautifully crafted.

Seriously, FUCK Boundless.

Writers, do not publish with them.

Agents, do not submit to them.

Bookstores, do not carry their books.

Any company that thinks torching this many authors will result in being able to “continue publishing and rebuild trust” is delusional and deserves to die.

I was wondering if this might be the most 90s artefact ever, and then I spotted it had a foreword by Vanessa Feltz and knew for sure.

Illuminated manuscript w pics and Latin script

Man in blue horn being robed or cloaked by two people . Decorations abound

Outrageously spectacular illuminated manuscript from 1470 Siena Duomo

Ahh this might be the vintagey orangey red I'm looking for! Hooray!

Fantastic ending to Baroness Kidron's speech in the House of Lords yesterday, which led to the government's defeat on AI & copyright.

Speaking the UK's creators: "Their property, their labour, is worthy of your protection - because apart from anything else, it is not ours to give away."

A beautiful and gigantic coral-coloured peony about 9 inches across, sadly in someone else's garden and not mine.

It's peony envy season!

The Pretender by Jo Harkin review – a bold and brilliant comedy of royal intrigue This fantasia on the life of Lambert Simnel, who finds himself a claimant to the English throne, is a romp through late-medieval identity and historical uncertainty

I reviewed THE PRETENDER by Jo Harkin and found it dazzlingly brilliant. A true pleasure. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

Taking a moment to celebrate the iconic sartorial stylings of rural Hampshire in the late 80s.

Wrong, wrong, and wrong. Just some basic fact-checking would be nice.

Anyway, I wrote about Eostre here:

florencehrs.substack.com/p/eostre-pag...

Bumper stickers: "CLUNGE MAGNET" (pic of magnet) "LEST WE FORGET" (pic of sad soldier)

Amazing scenes in the carpark today.

It's the anniversary of my grandfather's death today and also the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. I think he'd have enjoyed this fact if he could have known it. I can hear his chuckle. Missed and loved, dear Gaffer.

I always enjoy your posts so much! I'm sure many of us are envious of your students.

A light blue diagram depicting the sea, with the water's surface at the top, and just below it is an outline of the Mary Rose, with the depth (12m, 40ft or 6.7 fathoms). There is a line showing the seabed, which takes a rapid dive into the vertical...

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,

"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"

Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

Love Sonja's thoughts here - as I so often do.

It's so lovely isn't it? Lifts my spirits whenever I'm there.

Highly erotic.

Creative writing AND ancient object handling. My teenage self would have killed for such an experience.

Edwards all the way down!