A relatively short blog post today, I’m afraid… As I explained in last month’s post, Why does it all take so long!, I’m deeply embroiled in revising and editing A Woman’s Lot, book 2 of my “Meonbridge Chronicles” series, and it’s a long-drawn-out and, at times, all-consuming, not to say energy-draining, process. I’ve now received …

Continue reading Motorways or country lanes?

I first posted this piece in June on The History Girls blogspot, but you know how much I love talking about the Black Death, so I thought I should share it again here.   I have always thought, perhaps along with many people, that, after the devastation caused by what we call The Black Death in …

Continue reading Lost worlds, changed lives: life beyond the Black Death