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Published on: 03/24/23 4:00 PM

‘Cross-dressed to Kill’- Vivien Morgan talks at the National Army Museum about her book on women who cross-dressed as men to go to war

Cross-dressed as soldiers from the 17th to the 19th century ‘Cross-dressed to Kill’ is a collection of extraordinary stories by twenty women cross-dressers of English, Irish, French, Prussian, Russian, Spanish, American…

Published on: 03/24/23 3:47 PM

‘You say you want a Revolution’ talk about how new video technology changed newsgathering and story-telling forever

The theme of this year’s World Storytelling Day is ‘Together we Can’. Organisers say that ‘Worldwide events have made storytellers in society help build community spirit and inspire change’. Vivien…

Published on: 08/5/21 9:04 AM

Cross-dressed to Kill Book reviews

Published on: 03/3/21 2:02 PM

My 3rd Woman to Remember for #Womenshistorymonth

#WomensHistoryMonth. My 3rd woman to remember.Geneviève Prémoy, alias Chevalier Balthazard 1660–1704, enlisted as a French officer for 15 years.Her 1st love was fighting,but got entangled with many women while in…

Published on: 03/2/21 2:57 PM

March is Women’s History Month- my 31 women to remember!

She brought 'good hope' or 'bonne esperance' her French nickname to the troops she fought with.

Published on: 03/1/21 10:53 AM

International Women’s Day Talk- on Cross-dressing Women

400 years ago a young spanish girl ran away from her convent to dress in men's clothes and find a life of freedom- and fighting. Catalina de Erauso is the first story in my book on Cross--dressing women, and explains how and why she did it. 'Nun turned Top-Gun! is one of her nicknames today

Published on: 02/17/21 1:58 PM

Zoom talks -coming up

Zoom talks comin-up soon

Published on: 01/18/21 11:58 AM

Florence Nightingale – good at numbers not just nursing!

Florence Nightingale also made her mark on the use of statistics with diagrams that survive to this day- proving not only how soldier's survival rates improved but that visual representation of figures in diagram form- helped people understand - and got new public health acts passed.

Published on: 01/5/21 11:36 AM

Girls don’t need to be boys!

Read the reviews of Abigail Shrier's book 'Irreversible Damage'. A scary trend of teenage girls moving from anorexia,self-harm and suicide to wanting transgender identities and treatment including surgery. What, she asks is wrong with being a girl? They're not defective boys. They're different- vive la difference!

Published on: 12/31/20 2:42 PM

Tales of women soldiers feature in the new book ‘Cross-dressed to Kill’ from Bosham’s Vivien Morgan.

“I found a Victorian book years ago in a Worcestershire bookshop that featured five women soldiers and was fascinated. “I was encouraged by friends including the writer Jilly Cooper to do a book as no one had heard about women who masqueraded as men. So I did more research and found out that there were hundreds of known women globally who did this. “Why and how is what I wanted to know. Were they gay, tomboys, patriots or just like Louisa May Alcott desperate to ‘do something’ as they lived through decades of war?

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