By Jack the Good Knight. He captured a king, frightened the French and became one of England's most celebrated medieval warriors, but he was never known as the Black Prince while he was alive. In fact, the nickname doesn't appear in surviving written records until the 16th Century, nearly 200 years after his death. But who was the Black Prince and why can he be considered as one of the greatest knights of all time? Born for battle Edward of Woodstock (1330-1376) was born on 1

By Chris Livemore I am going to start this blog by letting you know that there were no pumpkins in medieval Britain. Not a single one. Pumpkins came from the Americas and only reached Europe after the medieval period in the 16th century. They were first mentioned by Elizabethan herbalist John Gerard in 1597, so we know pumpkins, or 'pompions' as they were known back then, were grown in Tudor gardens, but missed the Middle Ages. So whatever people were doing at the end of Octo

When I launched The Good Knight blog, I had a plan. The plan was this: write honestly about the journey to get five picture books published. Share what it's like to write something you believe in and then spend months trying to persuade people in offices to agree with you. Talk about the mission, getting more dads reading at bedtime, the 42% statistic, the ten minutes that makes a difference. Build Jack's world in public. Be vulnerable. Be real. It was a good plan. Then I wro