Monthly Archives: September 2015

HISTORY SHARE: JACK THE RIPPER

September 30, 2015 · by Renee Duke · in HISTORY HAPPENINGS · Leave a comment

Not recommended for children, but older teens might find this site of interest. http://jack-the-ripper.org/

CHILD MIGRATION: THE HOME CHILDREN (RE-POST)

September 29, 2015 · by Renee Duke · in HISTORY HAPPENINGS · Leave a comment

Approximately twelve per cent of Canada’s population can claim descent from young immigrants known as Home Children. Between 1863-1939, fifty different British child care societies shipped about 118,000 youngsters to Canada and placed them with Canadian families. Though younger children like Hetty and Pip were sometimes adopted, older ones were usually taken on as farm […]

THE RAGGED SCHOOL MUSEUM (RE-POST)

September 26, 2015 · by Renee Duke · in HISTORY HAPPENINGS · Leave a comment

In The Mud Rose, my young time travellers connect to their Victorian mudlarks through a visit to London’s Ragged School Museum. This museum was once the Barnardo-run Copperfield Ragged School, the largest of the schools supplying free education to the children of the poor. Now, however, it supplies not-so poor modern children with information on […]

HISTORY SHARE: MUDLARKS

September 25, 2015 · by Renee Duke · in HISTORY HAPPENINGS · Leave a comment

http://18thcand19thc.blogspot.ca/2014/01/child-mudlarks.html

TIME ROSE 2: THE MUD ROSE

September 24, 2015 · by Renee Duke · in HISTORY HAPPENINGS · Leave a comment

Life’s hard if you’re a Victorian street urchin, and crossing the path of Jack the Ripper can make it even harder. Want to know how? Read: On this trip into the past, the Time Rose medallion takes Paige, Dane, and Jack to Victorian London and places them in the company of two street-wise young mudlarks. […]

TIME ROSE SERIES & SIDE TRIP PRINT VERSIONS

September 23, 2015 · by Renee Duke · in HISTORY HAPPENINGS · Leave a comment

Coming SOON * to paperback! * Translation: As soon as I finish with the galleys. Watch this space!

HISTORICAL SPECULATION: DID THE PRINCES SURVIVE? (RE-POST)

September 19, 2015 · by Renee Duke · in HISTORY HAPPENINGS · 1 Comment

Working on the theory that the Princes in the Tower disappeared but did not necessarily perish, there is some historical evidence that at least one of them survived. Let’s start with the ‘feigned boys’ that caused Henry VII so much trouble. In order for any of them to be able to threaten his position, it […]

HISTORY SHARE: THE PRINCES IN THE TOWER

September 18, 2015 · by Renee Duke · in HISTORY HAPPENINGS · Leave a comment

Painting by John Everett Millais 1878 http://www.historicmysteries.com/the-princes-in-the-tower/ http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/feb/05/princes-in-tower-staying-under http://medievalaccommodation.com/medieval-britain/LMB%20Pages/Pages-a-d/too_many_bones_in_the_tower.htm

TIME ROSE 1: THE DISAPPEARING ROSE

September 16, 2015 · by Renee Duke · in HISTORY HAPPENINGS · Leave a comment

The two little Princes in the Tower disappeared five centuries ago – so what are they doing in our time? To find out, read: Synopsis: What happened to two young princes who disappeared from the Tower of London over five hundred years ago is still quite a mystery. A mystery Dane and Paige Marchand and […]

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Monthly Archives: September 2015

HISTORY SHARE: JACK THE RIPPER

CHILD MIGRATION: THE HOME CHILDREN (RE-POST)

THE RAGGED SCHOOL MUSEUM (RE-POST)

HISTORY SHARE: MUDLARKS

TIME ROSE 2: THE MUD ROSE

TIME ROSE SERIES & SIDE TRIP PRINT VERSIONS

HISTORICAL SPECULATION: DID THE PRINCES SURVIVE? (RE-POST)

HISTORY SHARE: THE PRINCES IN THE TOWER

TIME ROSE 1: THE DISAPPEARING ROSE

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