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Diana Jackson

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Historical Fiction

  • Women and Island Life over 100 years ago

    In the next few posts, during August I am going to address issues regarding women in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. It was a period of great change, a contrast you will see if you read my two novels ‘Riduna‘ and ‘Ancasta Guide me Swiftly Home.’ Riduna is set in the mid to…

  • Virtual Tour of the Solent and Beyond ~No 15~ India ~ The last Post

    This is my last post in my virtual journey to the various locations in Ancasta Guide me Swiftly Home and it’s a place I never expected to go to when I planned the novel. Although I made an outline before I began to write, for me it’s always the research, as well as intuition and…

  • A Big Thank You!

    Today’s post is to say thank you, firstly to the people who worked with me to organise last Weekend’s Blog Tour. Then to the followers who promoted my posts and finally to share what I have learnt. Firstly there’s Debra Brown, who seems to work tirelessly to keep up a blog which never ceases to surprise.…

  • GOOD NEWS ~ DIANA JACKSON’S WEEKEND BLOG TOUR

    I am pleased to announce this weekend’s blog tour from: Friday 15th February to Monday 18th March FRIDAY ~Launching this tour on Friday 15th February I will be a guest blogger on Debra Brown’s historical blog which is well worth a follow. You will gain an insight into some of the interesting and intriguing research…

  • The Solent Area and Beyond ~ A Virtual Tour no 5 ~ The Royal Victoria Park Netley

    In walking distance heading north west along Southampton Water from Hamble we reach The Royal Victoria Park, an open space of an acre or so of grass sloping down to the river, which you can glimpse through the gaps in the tree-line. It is surrounded by woodland, through which there are many paths and tracks,…

  • Historical Fiction ~ Historical Research

    There is always a great deal of controversy between the purists  who research history for its own sake, and those, like myself, who try to popularise it to make it accessible to a wider audience by turning it into fiction. I must admit to taking the research far more methodically for my second novel ‘Ancasta ~ Guide…

  • BBC Radio Solent. Diana and Colin have a chat with Katie Martin

    I met Colin van Geffen, (the local artist who designed my covers and historian who checked some of my facts) outside the Bitterne Heritage Centre. Both Ancasta ~ Guide me Swiftly Home and Riduna are for sale there. It seemed a fitting place to meet since that’s where my research in the area began several…

  • ‘Schneider Trophy to Spitfire’ by John Shelton

    I bought a copy of John Shelton’s comprehensive reference book ‘Schneider Trophy to Spitfire‘ when visiting the RAF Museum in Hendon. With its chronological factual information, enhanced by original photographs, diagrams, adverts and anecdotes, it a an extremely readable history of early flying boats leading to the development of the Spitfire. Looking at the double…