Claire Ridgway is a full-time history researcher and writer who lives somewhere up a mountain in Andalucia, southern Spain.

A vivid dream about witnessing Anne Boleyn’s execution led to her starting The Anne Boleyn Files blog in February 2009. By the summer of that year she had given up freelance writing to focus on history research and writing, her real passion. Annoyed with the wealth of misinformation, myths and downright lies about Anne Boleyn online and in books, Claire made it her mission to get to the truth behind Henry VIII’s second wife and share it with the world. The Anne Boleyn Files is now one of the top Tudor history websites and Claire is well respected in the history community.

Claire sees herself as the History Detective, using zee leetle grey cells to dig for the truth in the primary sources. She’s like a dog with a bone when it comes to an inaccuracy or misconception and won’t let go until she’s found the truth.