Monthly Archives: May 2018
TRIVIA TRAIL: HISTORIC GUESS WHO? *
Question: A baby boy destined to be a hero twice over was born in the small town of Chorley in Lancashire, England on March 30th, 1874. He went to sea at the age of thirteen and would eventually save lives during both the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 and on the beaches of Dunkirk […]
HISTORIC MOVIE IDEAS FOR MAY
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
HISTORY SHARE: THE SINKING OF THE LUSITANIA
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
HISTORY SHARE & HINDENBURG REFERENCE APOLOGY
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, […]
HISTORY LURE: TALKING ABOUT THE PAST
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 […]
Time Travelling With Kids 