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Diana Jackson

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  • Raymonde de Laroche ~25th November 1913

    To add to my recent posts about early female aviators I must mention this French lady: Raymonde de Laroche 1886 -1919 Background and Inspiration to Fly Raymonde always enjoyed sport and motorcycles but was inspired to learn to fly after watching Wilber Wright’s flight demonstrations in Paris in 1908. In 1909, under the instruction of…

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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…

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  • 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…

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  • Ancasta ~ Guide me Swiftly Home now available on Kindle worldwide! 08/11/2012

    Ancasta ~ Guide me Swiftly Home This is the second novel in The Riduna Series by Diana Jackson NOW AVAILABLE AS A PAPERBACK AND ON KINDLE WORLDWIDE~ 7th November 2012! SEE BELOW FOR DETAILS Local historian in the history of aviation in the Southampton area, Colin van Geffen writes: “In Ancasta, against the background of the…

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  • Muse on Feminine Issues in Ancasta

    You may be forgiven for thinking from reading my blog posts, that my novel Ancasta Guide me Swiftly Home is all about flying boats, the Hampshire Regiment, Palmerstone Forts and the Schneider Trophy. Yes they do feature, threaded through my story, but Ancasta addresses huge feminine issues of the time too. Ancasta is actually a…

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  • Good News! Ancasta will be launched 7th July 2012!

    I can finally announce the good news that my second novel: Ancasta – Guide me Swiftly Home which will be launched on:  Saturday 7th July 2012 Why Ancasta? Ancasta was a Roman Goddess of the River Itchen in Southampton, UK to whom travellers prayed to guide them swiftly home to the port of Southampton. Since…

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