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Chief Officer Stephen Gronow and the Sinking of the Vinovia
by Siân Evans Siân Evans, author of Maiden Voyages, shares her great-great uncle’s harrowing adventure of being torpedoed by a German U-boat during WWI. Chief Officer Stephen...
Researching The Living and the Lost
by Ellen Feldman It’s a truism that writers are always squirreling away random observations, eavesdropped comments, and stray anecdotes as grist for their literary mills. A novel...
Oh, Those “Girton Girls!”
by Nancy Springer In 19th century England, while sons of the well-to-do were sent to boarding school and university, daughters were generally taught at home by...
Gender Roles Beyond the Grave: Sexing by Metal
by Nancy Marie Brown When I began writing The Real Valkyrie, I thought it was going to be a book about bones. It turned out to be a book about bias. Sketch of the archaeological...
Who was Joe Kennedy?
by Susan Ronald In the following excerpt from The Ambassador, acclaimed biographer Susan Ronald discusses the early life of Joseph Kennedy, foreshadowing his controversial stint...
Sail Away: Post-War Migration and the Escape from Poverty
by Siân Evans Siân Evans’s new book Maiden Voyages is an engaging and anecdotal social history, exploring how women’s lives were transformed by the Golden Age of ocean liner...
The Despair of Persons Living With Alzheimer’s Disease
By Jason Karlawish On the morning of June 7th, 2021, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Biogen’s drug aducanumab (marketed as Aduhelm) for the treatment of...