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

Florence Nightingale – good at numbers not just nursing!

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!

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.

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?

Published on: 12/8/20 2:17 PM

Published on: 12/6/20 4:14 PM

The Handsome Cabin Boy

A recording by Kate Bush of the 'Handsome Cabin Boy 'on You Tube. The ancient song is about Mary Anne Talbot, one of my soldier women who was abducted and…

Published on: 11/13/20 12:53 PM

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Published on: 10/14/20 12:27 PM

Patriotism has no sex- for cross-dressing women

What fascinated me most when researching my book, is what drove these the young women and teenagers to take this radical and dangerous step. Cross-dressing women risked prosecution with penalties…