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Posts tagged "dovecotes"

Female Dovekeepers

Posted on November 6, 2014 by Sue Babcock in dovecotes, medieval, pigeons

The idea of a female dovecote keeper opened a new world for me. I shouldn’t have been surprise that most dovekeepers were girls and women, after all, women are often the ones on farms today who care for chickens. My problem was that I assumed Anglo Saxon women prior to 1066AD were chattel, in the […]

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Dovecotes: When The Facts Don’t Match My Story

Posted on October 17, 2014 by Sue Babcock in medieval, pigeons, planning the novel

What do you do when historical facts don’t match your story? This past week I went back and reviewed my research on pigeons, and found something I had glossed over before. Dovecotes, the sturdy round buildings that housed pigeons during the middle ages, came to England from Normandy after 1066. Well, darn. I had dovecotes […]

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