Monthly Archives: September 2015

HISTORY SHARE: JACK THE RIPPER

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

HISTORIC IMMIGRANTS RE-POST: THE HOME CHILDREN

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 […]

SOCIAL REFORMER RE-POST: DR. BARNARDO

Well-to-do Victorians considered it their Christian duty to improve the lives of the less fortunate, and were receptive to supporting the work of social reformers like Thomas Barnardo, who ministered to orphaned and abandoned children like Hetty and Pip in The Mud Rose. The Dublin-born Barnardo went to London in 1866 with the intention of […]

HISTORIC MUSEUM RE-POST: THE RAGGED SCHOOL MUSEUM

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: VICTORIAN MUDLARKS

https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/blog/library-archive/mudlarks-murky-world-londons-river-scavengers The Life of a Mudlark, 1861

BOOK PROMO WITH EXCERPT: THE MUD ROSE

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. […]

HISTORICAL SPECULATION RE-POST: DID THE PRINCES SURVIVE?

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 […]

HISTORIC REFUSAL: RE-EXAMINATION OF SUPPOSED REMAINS OF THE PRINCES IN THE TOWER

   http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/feb/05/princes-in-tower-staying-under

BOOK PROMO WITH EXCERPT: THE DISAPPEARING ROSE

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 […]

BLATANT SELF-PROMOTION: RE-RELEASE OF TIME ROSE BOOKS 1 AND 2

The first two books in my middle grade time travel series have been re-released, this time by my new publisher, Books We Love. Check out http://mgddasef.blogspot.ca/ for an interesting conversation between one of my Mud Rose characters and the lead character in Marva Dasef’s Tales Of A Texas Boy. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001E3A0RU/  

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