Weir (Innocent Traitor) captures the perspective of the subject of her bestselling biography, Eleanor of Aquitaine, the medieval duchess who wielded power across Europe at a time when women were ...

Historian Alison Weir has conducted exhaustive academic research into the lives, personalities and eccentricities of the most notable Tudors: Henry VIII and his daughter, Elizabeth I. Weir uses her ...

When Elizabeth I came to the throne, after the horrors and turbulence of her Catholic sister’s reign, she said of her religious policy that she did not intend to “make windows into men’s souls”. What ...

Veteran royal biographer Weir (Eleanor of Aquitaine) resurrects the life and times of the remarkable woman who was mistress and eventually the wife of John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, third son of ...

Alison Weir is the biggest selling female historian since records began. Her new novel, The Marriage Game takes a look at the tumultuous and scandalous relationship between the young Queen Elizabeth I ...

Historian Alison Weir is launching an "ambitious" new series this autumn exploring the lives of England’s queens over four centuries "long neglected by historians", from the Norman Conquest to the end ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Alison Weir is the No.1-selling female historian in Britain. She has sold more than 2.3 million copies of books on famous figures that ...

In Captive Queen, her third work of fiction, bestselling British historian Alison Weir offers an energetic but uneven portrait of a royal marriage gone sour. Eleanor of Aquitaine has become the ideal ...

This month Stanford University’s Students for Justice in Palestine shut down a presentation that included the presence of Alison Weir of If Americans Knew which featured as a speaker Palestinian women ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Alison Weir's exhaustive case study of the arrest, trial and execution of Anne Boleyn concludes that "she went to her death an ...

Popular historian Alison Weir enters treacherous territory with a fictional re-telling of the early years of Elizabeth I and her much debated romance with Thomas Seymour, her stepmother's husband. " ...

The IMEMC would like to extend our best wishes to Alison Weir, who began her work for the advocacy of Palestinian equal rights 18 years ago, in March 2001. Alison is the founder of If Americans Knew, ...