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Diana Jackson

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  • Early 20th Century Female Aviators ~ Ruth Bancroft Law

    Was my third brilliant aviator from the early 20th Century the first woman allowed to wear an NCO uniform? Of course she didn’t fight in battle and there were characters like Joan of Arc and Boadicea before her, leaders of war in their day, but nevertheless Ruth Bancroft was a strong willed lady who deserves…

  • Amazing Female Aviators of the Early 20th Century ~ Bessie Coleman

    I love research and I’m looking forward to an autumn of delving into the background for the next novel in my Riduna series. (Having been prompted by several readers to do so) Sometimes it is the ‘blind alleys’ you get absorbed in that give you a gem of an idea for the future and my…

  • Amazing Female Aviators in the Early 20th Century ~ Katherine Stinson

    Katherine Stinson caught my eye as a remarkable woman, not only because of her aviation achievements but also because she lived to a ‘ripe old age’ of 106 years, unusual even today but certainly ‘against the odds’ for aviators in the early 20th Century, either male or female. I was tempted to put her story on my…

  • Amazing Female Aviators in the Early 20th Century ~ Harriet Quimby 1875-1912

    Whilst researching for ‘Ancasta Guide me Swiftly Home’ I read a great deal about early aviators and was exciteded to read about Harriet Quimby, even though it had nothing to do with my novel. Anyone writing a novel knows how easy it is to get sidetracked and it led to me finding out about other…

  • Virtual Tour of the Solent and Beyond ~No 14~WW1 in the Med and Port Said

    If this is the first of my virtual tour posts that you’ve stumbles upon, since Christmas I’ve been on a journey around the Solent from Fort Gilkicker, along Southampton Water, back out to Calshot, over to The Channel Islands and France and today we travel in our mind’s eye to Turkey and the Mediterranean. This…

  • Being Compared to a Best Seller ~ A Double Edged Sword

    In the last few months I’ve joined The Sarnia literacy Society on Facebook and have enjoyed talking about such books as Ebenezer le Page, a delightful story written like memoirs of an elderly gentleman and his life on Guernsey. Apart from getting lost occasionally in a plethora of friends and relations, I found the book…

  • Virtual Tour of the Solent and Beyond~No 13~Over the English Channel to France in the Great War

    Ancasta Guide me Swiftly Home is set between 1910 and 1920 and so the members of the Newton family see many facets of World War One; the life changing experiences of the women at home in Woolston as Harriet opens her home for convalescent soldiers; the marked effect on their children and Jane’s world at…

  • The Solent Area ~ Virtual Tour no 8 ~ Southampton

    In the past, if  you’d taken the Floating Bridge over the River Itchen from Woolston then you would be close to Southampton Docks and as a child, when holidaying with my Grandma we used to do the round trip… over to Southampton via the Floating Bridge and back via Northam Bridge, or the other way around if…