(click on heading to leave comments at bottom of page) It’s been a momentous couple of weeks with the ‘Black Lives Matter’ protests, the funeral of George Floyd as well as the continuing struggle against COVID-19. It makes you wonder if we have come far enough in the last 200 years although, looking over the […]
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(click on heading to leave comments at bottom of page) I had intended to write more about Mary Ann Goulding’s story but the last 10 days in the USA have been momentous ones and have demanded attention. The murder of George Floyd and its stirring of memories of similar racist attacks and its renewed exposure […]
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(click on heading to leave comments at bottom of page) I wonder. What is the collective noun for riots? I also wonder where is this all heading? We are seeing a spontaneous uprising in the USA protesting another killing of an unarmed black man by a white police officer. Unquestionably, long-standing racial prejudice in the […]
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(click on heading to leave comments at bottom of page) I have been following the furore around Dominic Cummings in the UK over the last several days with both interest and not a little anger. If you are not interested in UK politics, this is the senior and extremely influential advisor to the UK’s Prime […]
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(click on heading to leave comments at bottom of page) A friend of mine whom I have known since I was a small boy, passed along an article from the ex-Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd to me. As he said, his politics are not everybody’s flavour but this particular article resonated very strongly with me, […]
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(click on heading to leave comments at bottom of page) To continue…. I mentioned in my earlier post Victoria and I had come across contemporary records of Mary Ann at the female factory in Hobart. We had also seen some of these records beforehand too. The first thing that struck us both was what appeared […]
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(click on heading to leave comments at bottom of page) I know I said that I would talk about Mary Ann, but I just had to comment on something happening in the USA right now. It seems to me to eerily echo things that I wrote about in the Helots’ tale… As many of you […]
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(click on heading to leave comments at bottom of page) As I said a few days back, I was going to come back to the writing of ‘Downfall’ …. Having decided to write Robert’s and Mary Ann’s story, I began the steps of collecting information and digging into the records. I initially thought that it […]
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(click on heading to leave comments at bottom of page) Having published my first novels and having received first reviews – which I’m happy to say have been positive (Yea!!), I figured it was time to look at marketing to expand my presence. As you can imagine, It’s a very crowded field and making your […]
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(click on heading to leave comments at bottom of page) My first post. Which, I suppose is much better than the Last Post. Let’s begin the journey. If my life’s experiences are anything to go by, it should be both unpredictable and interesting. Shall we see? I am the original peripatetic! At one time I […]
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