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International Women’s Day Talk- on Cross-dressing Women
400 years ago a young spanish girl ran away from her convent to dress in men's clothes and find a life of freedom- and fighting. Catalina de Erauso is the first story in my book on Cross--dressing women, and explains how and why she did it. 'Nun turned Top-Gun! is one of her nicknames todayPublished on: 02/17/21 1:58 PM
Zoom talks -coming up
Zoom talks comin-up soonPublished on: 01/18/21 11:58 AM
Florence Nightingale – good at numbers not just nursing!
Florence Nightingale also made her mark on the use of statistics with diagrams that survive to this day- proving not only how soldier's survival rates improved but that visual representation of figures in diagram form- helped people understand - and got new public health acts passed.Published on: 01/5/21 11:36 AM
Girls don’t need to be boys!
Read the reviews of Abigail Shrier's book 'Irreversible Damage'. A scary trend of teenage girls moving from anorexia,self-harm and suicide to wanting transgender identities and treatment including surgery. What, she asks is wrong with being a girl? They're not defective boys. They're different- vive la difference!Published on: 12/31/20 2:42 PM
Tales of women soldiers feature in the new book ‘Cross-dressed to Kill’ from Bosham’s Vivien Morgan.
“I found a Victorian book years ago in a Worcestershire bookshop that featured five women soldiers and was fascinated. “I was encouraged by friends including the writer Jilly Cooper to do a book as no one had heard about women who masqueraded as men. So I did more research and found out that there were hundreds of known women globally who did this. “Why and how is what I wanted to know. Were they gay, tomboys, patriots or just like Louisa May Alcott desperate to ‘do something’ as they lived through decades of war?Published on: 12/8/20 2:17 PM
‘Love Reading’ site review of my book, Cross-dressed to Kill
Cross-dressed to Kill should be shared in schools to demonstrate that the old-fashioned notion of the 'traditional' role of women didn't work....Published on: 12/6/20 4:14 PM
The Handsome Cabin Boy
A recording by Kate Bush of the 'Handsome Cabin Boy 'on You Tube. The ancient song is about Mary Anne Talbot, one of my soldier women who was abducted and…Published on: 11/13/20 12:53 PM
‘Being plain almost to repulsion’ was the rule for nurses in American Civil War
Attitudes towards women being active in the American Civil War of 1861 were misogynistic and offensive until need overcame prejudice. While cross-dressed women (an estimated 750 known) were slipping through…Published on: 11/9/20 2:59 PM
