by Lucille Turner | Mar 16, 2017 | History and Fiction
What might our world have been like if we had learned the lessons of history a little faster — or, dare I say, if we had even understood them in the first place? There are so many examples of recent history not yet learned that I dare not even broach the topic. And...
by Lucille Turner | Feb 10, 2017 | History and Fiction
When it comes to writing historical fiction, character is everything. It is character that helps a writer understand events and interpret them, simply because every historical event, unless it’s a natural disaster, is man-made. Battles are a consequence of human...
by Lucille Turner | Jan 24, 2017 | Science
Dyslexia, Asperger’s Syndrome and Epilepsy are often seen as connected, and some people may experience what is called co-morbidity, which is when two conditions occur together. But that doesn’t make them one and the same thing. People with dyslexia see the world...
by Lucille Turner | Jan 15, 2017 | History and Fiction
We tend to forget that in the twelfth and thirteenth century in Europe, we had our own band of seriously zealous extremists, the church inquisitors – the body of clerics, monks and secular priests charged with seeking out and punishing heretics throughout the medieval...
