Improve your writing skills

Autumn begins for me with a new Improve Your Writing Skills course. As I prepare to welcome my new course participants I remember that the autumn is always when we…
Teaching -Improving Writing skills course

Teaching -Improving Writing skills course

Just completed the first of my teaching on Improving Writing Skills. It was the most rewarding group of women who were really keen on writing and improving their skills- at…
Book talk at Battersea WI

Book talk at Battersea WI

Had a warm welcome at the Battersea WI's meeting last night to talk about my book Cross-dressed to Kill. They were interested in the stories of the women soldiers and…

Book talk at Walton on Thames Library

A short train ride away to get to the amazingly well-stocked library in Walton on Thames town. We had a good group of residents coming to hear my talk on…

Teaching creative writing course this month

Excited to be leading a 5 week course based at Kensignton Central Library in London on creative writing as part of the Adult Learning programme. The focus is very much…

Women’s History Month begins

Last year I wrote about a different woman every day during this important month, women who had achieved success in life but not had much recognition. Today I'm remembering Mary…

Down to the sea in slips- women sailors in disguise

https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/women-who-went-sea-dressed-men This feature on women who disguised themselves as men. They slipped through the recruiting net to go to sea and fight in the West and East Indies and in…

Women who went to Sea- disguised as sailors

Vivien Morgan,author of 'Cross-dressed to Kill', at the British Fort St James on Antigua where pirates wer The highest number of cross-dressing women who became soldiers and sailors, or marines,…