I think history runs through my veins. The past is, in the cliché, a foreign country and maybe that’s what attracts us. It’s distant so it’s safe to travel there vicariously. No lobster-back Hanoverian British soldier or Greek hoplite is going to grab us, nor are we going to be press-ganged or sent to India […]
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April 29th, 2015 | Tags: alternate history, book launch, Books, historical, steampunk | Category: Alternate history, Authors, Pre-launch snippets, Readers, Women warriors, Women's history | 2 comments - (Comments are closed) 
The Roma Nova heroines – Carina and Aurelia Mitela – are ‘tough gals’; dedicated, strong-willed, physically and mentally resilient and tied into their sense of history and duty. Underlying all this, their driving force is their self-belief. Carina, despite her disrupted childhood and separation from Roma Nova until she was twenty-four, has embraced Roma Novan […] If you enjoyed this post, do share it with your friends!February 26th, 2015 | Tags: alternative history, gender, gender equality, gender roles, Heroes, heroines, historical | Category: Alternate history, Books, INCEPTIO, PERFIDITAS, Roma Nova, Romans, SUCCESSIO, Women warriors, Women's history | 6 comments - (Comments are closed) I don’t want to sound specious, but I could say, ’They’ll be making them bishops next.’ Oh, they just did that. UK defence secretary, Michael Fallon, announced on 19 December that he wanted to end the army’s ban on women serving in frontline infantry roles in the British Army by 2016. He pointed out that […] If you enjoyed this post, do share it with your friends!December 22nd, 2014 | Tags: British Army, equality, military, women in combat, women's roles | Category: Insights, Women warriors, Women's history | 4 comments - (Comments are closed) |
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