Open season for questions
I would rather you asked your questions in LJ and not Facebook (my LJ account has been set so that you can, even if you don't normally use LJ). It's easier for me, and it's more interesting for everyone else.
The usual rules apply. You can ask anything - it can be about one of my areas of expertise, about my fiction, about my private life, about my forthcoming travels and my taste in alcohol. If an answer will take more than a few minutes, I won't reply (but I do have professional rates if you need history-for-writing or whatever) but if I can, I will send you to resources or institutions that may contain what you need. If your question is relates to matters historical, I know more about the Middle Ages (especially of England and France) than other periods, but I also know a bit about other periods and even some other places.
Your question doesn't have to be serious. I don't have to take your question seriously. If you ask about my shoe size or the length of a piece of string you risk being boring, because those jokes have already been made.
Is there anything else you need to know? Oh, yes. I'll answer questions up to and including Sunday this week (Canberra time). And, as usual, you don't have to know me, love me, or read my blog to ask questions*.
*In fact, you don't even have to ask questions in English, although my answers will probably be more useful if you ask in a language of which I have a reasonable knowledge. French and Spanish and their ancestors and cousins are your best bet. If anyone sends me a really good question in Old French (Poitevin is my first preference, although Champenois is also desirable) then I'll either send them something cool in the post or buy them a coffee at Leeds. I'm not quite as enthusiastic about Middle English or Latin today, for some reason, so there are no bribes available for those languages.
The usual rules apply. You can ask anything - it can be about one of my areas of expertise, about my fiction, about my private life, about my forthcoming travels and my taste in alcohol. If an answer will take more than a few minutes, I won't reply (but I do have professional rates if you need history-for-writing or whatever) but if I can, I will send you to resources or institutions that may contain what you need. If your question is relates to matters historical, I know more about the Middle Ages (especially of England and France) than other periods, but I also know a bit about other periods and even some other places.
Your question doesn't have to be serious. I don't have to take your question seriously. If you ask about my shoe size or the length of a piece of string you risk being boring, because those jokes have already been made.
Is there anything else you need to know? Oh, yes. I'll answer questions up to and including Sunday this week (Canberra time). And, as usual, you don't have to know me, love me, or read my blog to ask questions*.
*In fact, you don't even have to ask questions in English, although my answers will probably be more useful if you ask in a language of which I have a reasonable knowledge. French and Spanish and their ancestors and cousins are your best bet. If anyone sends me a really good question in Old French (Poitevin is my first preference, although Champenois is also desirable) then I'll either send them something cool in the post or buy them a coffee at Leeds. I'm not quite as enthusiastic about Middle English or Latin today, for some reason, so there are no bribes available for those languages.
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