Ælfgifu: Harlot, or Royal Threat? A Guest-Post by Annie Whitehead
Ælfgifu: Harlot, or Royal Threat? Annie Whitehead Annie is a history graduate and an elected member of the Royal Historical Society. She is the author of fiction and nonfiction, with a special interest in Mercian history. She has written four award-winning novels set in Anglo-Saxon Mercia, one of which, To Be A Queen , tells the story of Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians. She has contributed to fiction and nonfiction anthologies and written for various magazines. She is on the EHFA (English Historical Fiction Authors) editorial team and is senior reviewer at Discovering Diamonds. She was the winner of the inaugural Historical Writers’ Association/Dorothy Dunnett Prize 2017 and is now a judge for that same competition. She has also been a judge for the HNS (Historical Novel Society) Short Story Competition. Her nonfiction books are published by Amberley Books ( Mercia: The Rise and Fall of a Kingdom ) and Pen & Sword Books ( Women of Power in Anglo-Saxon England ). Website: https