May’s history based or bygone era TV and/or movie suggestions: Dunkirk (1958) The Hindenburg (1975) Sinking Of The Lusitania: Terror At Sea (2007) http://englishhistoryauthors.blogspot.ca/2015/04/lusitanias-fate-sealed-by-admiralty.html?spref=fb Advertisements
May obviously wasn’t a good month for twentieth-century trans-Atlantic travellers to set out in. Over twenty years before the Hindenburg met its fiery end, a German U-Boat sunk the passenger ship Lusitania. (May 7th, 1915.) http://www.pbs.org/lostliners/lusitania.html
The now famous German airship, the Hindenburg, burst into flames and crashed in New Jersey on May 6th, 1937. I know that date. I’ve known it for years. Decades, actually. And I still knew it in 2016, when I was writing The Tangled Rose (Book 4 of my Time Rose series). Some of you, however, […]
Time passes. Things change. People who have lived on this planet for eighty, ninety, or a hundred years or more have witnessed a lot of change. And most kids like hearing about how life was in the ‘olden days’ as much as the elderly like talking about them. If yours don’t have any REALLY old […]
With all the Angle, Saxon, and Viking bloodlines prevalent in Great Britain, people from that part of the world are often thought of as being mostly fair haired, fair skinned, and blue-eyed – a notion helped along by Pope Gregory I, who, according to legend, was so intrigued by the physical appearance of some “Anglii” […]
Speaking of horses…the importance of books was recognized long before the World Book Day celebrated a couple of days ago. During the Great Depression, libraries were a welcome source of books for people couldn’t afford their own. Unfortunately, a lot of people in remote areas of the United States didn’t have access to libraries, so […]
