Author: 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

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

  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

  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

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

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

  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

  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

  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

  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