What's an interesting/exciting thing you've discovered whilst researching your #histfic? I found out that flour dust is highly flammable and used this for an 'explosive' scene in my novel about the Lady of the Mercians mybook.to/To-Be-A-Queen
@AnnieWHistory I found out that falconry was a thing amongst the late anglo-Saxon nobility. So I included a chapter on it in Blood Price as a means of developing a character relationship. Didn’t stop someone giving me a 1 ⭐️ review for such an obvious anachronism 😫
@AnnieWHistory I learned there was a woman running a secret agent & assassin network from inside the Vatican. She was a pope’s aunt or cousin of course. Sadly it didn’t fit with my timeline.
@AnnieWHistory The poisonous qualities of monkshood.
@AnnieWHistory Excellent. I recently read a book where the same 'device' was used to set fire to a flour mill
@AnnieWHistory The flammability of flour dust was a primary cause of the fire that broke out in Thomas Farriner's bakery, and started the Great Fire of London.
@AnnieWHistory A great scene in a great book! I'm currently trying to work out if I can do something similar with poo. I'm getting conflicting evidence lol