Dr Jocelyn Chatterton

HERE'S ONE FOR THE HILARY MANTELL FANS - We had a very nice lunch at theanneofcleves.com pub once owned by Thomas Cromwell in Melton Mowbray. Nice food, interesting surroundings and friendly staff. lornahunting.com

@adrienneauthor @LisaEveleigh2 @RNAtweets Absolutely thrilled for you. Woo hoo!!

And today THIS happened! Absolutely thrilled to bits - thanks to everyone who has supported my author career this far and a very special thank you to my agent @LisaEveleigh2 who SO believed in this book! Dreams do come true ... #tuesnews @RNATweets #RONAS26

Here I am looking happy. UPDATE - I've just got my first edit of THE SHACKLETONS OF QUEEN STREET back from my editor @HelenaFairfax (The fourth and final book in the Shackleton series) SHE LIKES IT. A small rewrite and onward we go. lornahunting.com #histfic #KU #saga

@Mishi_2210 Two

@adrienneauthor Well deserved, 🥰

Absolutely delighted and honoured to be shortlisted by the prestigious #HistoricalNovelSociety #histfic #HNS in their 'First Chapter' competition for my novel Mystery of the Midnight Madonna. Over 650 books entered from 22 countries - what fantastic competition, so exciting!

It was great to be back at Naseby on Friday, this time giving a talk to the Naseby Battlefield Project. Lovely to meet everyone, including members of Pickering's Regiment, Sealed Knot.

Very proud of daughter #1 - Kathryn, Bladder Cancer Nurse Specialist at Guys Hospital, London. BJN Silver Award for urology Nurse of the Year. Wearing her grandmother's nursing cape from 1947 from St Paul's Hospital Vancouver. #EAUN #StPaulshospitalvancouver #proudmum #BJN

⚔️#OTD 1643, Battle of Hopton Heath - #Staffordshire A royalist victory, but their leader - the Earl of Northampton - was unhorsed and slain. The peer had declared: “I scorn to take quarter from such rogues as you are” An incensed parliamentarian 'slew [Northampton] by a blow with a halberd on the hinder part of his head.' Another slashed at the earl’s face. Northampton’s death echoed that of King Richard III at Bosworth. He had also been unhorsed, given a halberd blow to the head, and then disfigured. Sir William Brereton, the parliamentarian commander, wrote that the two sides, 'fought so long, and so fiercely, until all their powder and bullet was spent. Afterwards, they joined, and fell to it pell-mell, one upon another, with the stocks of their muskets.' Nightfall brought down the curtain on Hopton Heath. The parliamentarians made the most of the darkness by sinking their three large guns into pools, in order to prevent the royalists from claiming them, before withdrawing from the field. Though between 300-500 dead lay on Hopton Heath, one corpse was missing from this carnage; the Earl of Northampton's son appealed for the return of his father’s body. The response - that the royalists should first hand back all of the prisoners they had taken, as well as the eight artillery pieces - was a blow to chivalric ideals.

@ProofreadJulia I can see why.

Today I had to go the the doctors' surgery and see a nurse and then a doctor. The former was called Caitlin Moran and the latter Emily Blunt. This amused me greatly.

@ProofreadJulia Look at those microphones, very retro. I’d have like a brother.

My brother too! Looking good.

@ProofreadJulia Love it. The OH loves it too, just read it out to him as he’s getting up. Good start to the day😻

@ProofreadJulia How lovely. Do I see the ingredients for Pimm’s in the cool box? Very classy.

It's my niece's 25th birthday today. I remember my 25th birthday, I was living in Stockwell and my dad sent me a card in which he'd written 'Quarter of a century, not out'. (This is me and my dad, but obviously not on my 25th birthday!)

Fascinating morning in Huntingdon at the Town Hall for the "Royal Revenge - The Trial of Charles I's Regicide" put on by the @MuseumCromwell and @Sealed_Knot . It was excellent. Then a visit to the Museum. Did I say there was a bookshop? #happyday #cromwell #civilwar

Under my alter ego of Lorna Hunting, @Lindahill50Hill and I have been chatting about my books and author's life. There's an interesting family heirloom too that's travelled a long way. lindasbookbag.com/2025/12/15/sta…

For centuries shoes were ‘straight lasted’: no right or left shoes, people swapped their shoes around to ensure even wear! Ouch! For more on 17th century clothing visit our new free exhibition ‘Stitching the Nation’. #17thCentury cromwellmuseum.org

@Matt_Pinner Me!

Anyone

On Wednesday 3 December we have a very special evening event, with a rare showing of the iconic 1981 drama 'A last visitor for Mr Hugh Peter' based on the last night of the regicide and preacher. Introduced by historian @JohnWRees, so join us! Details at: cromwellmuseum.org/events/a-last-…