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Author: Jennifer Newbold

Eighteenth-Century Cold-Care

Posted on October 7, 2023 by Jennifer Newbold

    October is unfortunately for a lot of people the beginning of cold season. Regardless of the fact that I know the air recirculation and filtering on British Airways

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Long-legged Beasties

Posted on October 7, 2023 by Jennifer Newbold

Last November, on a very dark night in North Norfolk when the ground fog drifted across the fields, I looked out across the Burn, across the pasture, and up the

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Ship-type Stuff

Posted on September 1, 2023 by Jennifer Newbold

  Ship-type Stuff, or More Tedious Details…     Here’s something I wish every historical fiction author knew:   Gunpowder does not explode.   Black powder (gunpowder) burns very hot

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New Review

Posted on September 1, 2023 by Jennifer Newbold

  New Review   The Private Misadventures of Nell Nobody will be reviewed in Booklife, Publishers Weekly’s indy magazine, in the September 25 issue. I received an advance copy of

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More Eighteenth-Century Medicine

Posted on September 1, 2023 by Jennifer Newbold

Humoral medical theory   From the last centuries BCE until controlled empirical science took over in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, medical practice was based upon humoral theory. The principles

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Some of my recent discoveries.

Posted on August 6, 2023 by Jennifer Newbold

What are you reading? I recently discovered the delightful Greenwing & Dart series by Victoria Goddard. They are fantasy books set in an eighteenth-century-ish ‘alt-England’ sort of country where magic

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Ether as remedy

Posted on August 4, 2023 by Jennifer Newbold

  Naval surgeon William Beatty’s medical chest at Royal Museums Greenwich   Previously, I proposed to say a little about some eighteenth century medications (or ‘physic’) and what they were

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Nelson’s Medicine Chest

Posted on June 29, 2023 by Jennifer Newbold

  Horatio Nelson’s Medicine Chest   In The Private Misadventures of Nell Nobody, Captain Nelson occasionally requests various things from his portable medicine box. At All Saints Church, in the

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Special Deal for Two Days Only — July 11 and 12

Posted on June 28, 2023 by Jennifer Newbold

  Special Discounted Price for Amazon Prime Day!       If you haven’t read it yet, the Kindle ebook edition of The Private Misadventures of Nell Nobody will be

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Genre Elephant

Posted on June 28, 2023 by Jennifer Newbold

  Genre Elephant   Do you know the parable about the elephant? A group of blind men examine an elephant, and each describes what it is like based upon the

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