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Did you know... that English historian Alison Weir has produced books about Eleanor of Aquitaine in both fiction and non-fiction?

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Please change Alison Weir's non-fiction bibliography, because it is not currently up-to-date. It has her last non-fiction work published listed as Traitors in the Tower (2010), when in fact, she just released a new non-fiction book entitled Mary Boleyn: The Mistress of Kings, in early October 2011.

Jlc353 (talk) 18:10, 18 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Done. – Luna Santin (talk) 00:12, 22 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Citations for future expansion

Placing here for future expansion of article - [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] Ruby 2010/2013 05:30, 26 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Article history missing

The earliest versions of this article appear to be missing. It looks like the article was overwritten with information about another person and moved to Alison Weir (activist) - there should be some edits in the deleted page up to March 2008 for the article about the historian. I'm not sure if attribution is necessary for these edits; if it is then a history merge will be needed. Peter E. James (talk) 01:07, 16 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sort your dates out.

"Weir became interested in the field of history at the age of fourteen after reading a book about Catherine of Aragon.[2] According to her, she became "so enthralled by it that I dashed off to read real history books to find out the truth behind what I had read, and thus my passion for history was born ".[3] By the following year, she had written a biography of Anne Boleyn, a three-volume reference work about the Tudor family, and several historical plays."

This basically reads as saying that by the age of FIFTEEN she had written a 3-volume biography, etc. Sort it aht!!!

Basket _Feudalist 15:46, 15 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

...done. Basket _Feudalist 13:37, 16 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

'Reviewed by'

Is this sentence really necessary: "Weir's non-fiction books have been reviewed by prominent historians like Diarmaid MacCulloch and Hilary Mantel, as well as such media outlets as The Independent, The Washington Post, and The Globe and Mail"? Apart from the goof of calling Hilary Mantel a historian (she's a writer of historical fiction), it's rather stating the obvious to say that newspapers publish reviews of history books, and sometimes invite well-known historians or novelists to write them. Scolaire (talk) 08:57, 24 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

On checking further, two of the five "reviews of non-fiction books" were about The Captive Queen, a novel. The first sentence in that paragraph is based on throwaway remarks in two articles, and Weir's review of Elizabeth: The Golden Age tells us nothing about Weir herself. I have removed that whole paragraph, and replaced it with some details from the cited reviews. Scolaire (talk) 08:27, 26 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Place of birth?

The info box gives Lambeth as AW's place of birth and the first sentence of the article gives Westminster. Which is correct? (I am well aware that at one point these two London boroughs are only a bridge apart, but discrepancies of this kind can be mildly irritating, and they don't look too good, either). Norvo (talk) 21:33, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Norvo: I'm not sure (being American) but from my basic snooping a birth for Alison Matthews was recorded in Lambeth in 1951 but not Westminster. But, they rearranged some things in 1965 so maybe the area she was born in later Westminster. Or the hospital was one block into Lambeth and she thinks it was in Westminster. Who knows. I agree it looks bad. She said she is from Westminster so I guess the correct thing to do is change it. I don't know what the original source was indicating Lambeth.... —Мандичка^YO 😜 10:40, 17 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. The changes in 1965 did not move any territory from Lambeth to Westminster (or vice versa). The two have always been separated by the Thames. Norvo (talk) 03:45, 18 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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