Monthly Archives: November 2017
HISTORY-BASED ACTIVITIES FOR KIDS: ST. ANDREW’S DAY
Happy St. Andrew’s Day! https://www.activityvillage.co.uk/st-andrews-day-printables
TRIVIA TRAIL: EUROPE’S FIRST SUPERHIGHWAY
Question: What is Rome’s most famous ancient road called? Answer: The Via Appia, or Appian Way, which visitors to Rome can still walk along. (The Romans built things to last.) Begun by Appius Claudius Caecus in 312 BC, it started in Rome and by 244 BC went all the way to Brundisium (Brindisi) on the […]
HISTORIC WORTH-A-VISIT: ROMAN VILLA RE-CREATION
Ruins are all very well but, if you want to do more than just image a Roman villa in its heyday, and happen to be in Malibu, California … http://www.italymagazine.com/featured-story/experience-ancient-roman-villa-heart-malibu
HISTORIC WORTH-A-VISIT: ROME’S ROMAN GLADIATOR SCHOOL
Not having been there for over four decades, I went to Italy last year to research the last novel in my Time Rose series. My son went, too (to research film stuff), and one of the places we visited was the Gruppo Storico Romano’s (Roman History Group’s) gladiator school in Rome. I sat out the ‘training […]
HISTORY-THEMED BIRTHDAY PARTIES: ANCIENT ROME
Since the last book in my Middle Grade/YA time travel series (Time Rose Book 5: The Volcanic Rose) is set in Ancient Rome, this month’s birthday theme is – Ancient Rome! To really get in the swing of things, the birthday boy or girl and his/her guests should go by Roman version of their names […]
Time Travelling With Kids 