Historical Perspectives on an Island Mentality
The term, ‘island mentality’ may be connected with being an island, but it means far more than just geography. Here is one dictionary definition (urbandictionary.com) ‘An island mentality is a psychological state more than a geographic state of a person: a...Tags
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Blog Posts
- MONARCHY AND POWER – THE RIGHT TO RULE BRITANNIA March 14, 2021
- The War on Covid January 27, 2021
- Myths and Their Monsters – Lord of the Rings October 5, 2020
- Q&A with Louise Fein August 24, 2020
- MYTHS AND THEIR MONSTERS – Count Dracula August 14, 2020
- Theme in Historical Fiction July 8, 2020
- The Fall of Constantinople June 21, 2020
- Historical Perspectives on Happiness May 7, 2020
- Historical Perspectives on Pandemics April 18, 2020
- Historical Perspectives on the Notion of Boredom March 22, 2020
- A Short History of Ideas – HYGIENE February 29, 2020
- ENTERTAINING HISTORY – The Motion of the Earth and Foucault’s Pendulum January 9, 2020
- ENTERTAINING HISTORY December 12, 2019
- ENTERTAINING HISTORY – What is Money? December 12, 2019
- ENTERTAINING HISTORY October 17, 2019
- ENTERTAINING HISTORY – Banking by Stick October 17, 2019
- 500 Years of Leonardo April 29, 2019
- Other People’s Gods – Cronus December 23, 2018
- Other People’s Gods – Terminus November 7, 2018
- Other People’s Gods – Thor August 26, 2018
Lucille Turner
LUCILLE TURNER’s first book, Gioconda, was described in The Financial Times as, ‘A lush, evocative, and remarkably accomplished debut novel’.