Sasha Butler discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.
Sasha Butler is a Birmingham based writer. Her first novel, The Marriage Contract (Salt, 2025), was shortlisted for the Cheshire Novel Prize 2022 and the Bath Novel Award 2022, under the former title As Soft as Dreams. In addition to novels, she occasionally writes short stories. Her short story ‘Map of an Affair’ features in Floodgate Press’ anthology, Night Time Economy (September 2024). The Marriage Contract is available at https://www.saltpublishing.com/products/the-marriage-contract-9781784633608
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The decline of the skirret https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/82232/sium-sisarum/details
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The Great Comet of 1577 https://hgss.copernicus.org/articles/12/111/2021/
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Levina Teerlinc https://artherstory.net/levina-teerlinc/
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Handshakes have not always been used as a greeting gesture https://academic.oup.com/past/article/267/1/48/7716082
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The fleet that set out with the Golden Hinde (formerly called The Pelican), the Elizabethan ship that circumnavigated the earth https://www.goldenhinde.co.uk/discover/the-circumnavigation-1577-1580
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Baddesley Clinton https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/warwickshire/baddesley-clinton
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