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Life after the war: Spanish Flu | Kitty Gamble
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Writing and historical nerdery. Life after the war: Spanish Flu. Oh, the Spanish ‘flu. I hardly have to give a detailed description of it, I should think. Wikipedia says it was one of the deadliest natural disasters in human history – and claims it killed 3-5% of the world’s population. Which is very interesting. On the 4th December, there was a notice on how to avoid infection:. It’s an emergency! Maybe I’m being too hard on 1918 Bovril marketing team. Maybe they were genuinely worried. An...These are m...
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Nine Worlds and other news « Em's place
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Skip to main content. Writing, anxiety-wrangling, tea. Nine Worlds and other news. August 3, 2015. Well, someone is definitely stealing time from me as it’s August now and I am pretty certain it’s supposed to be May. But anyway, everyone else seems to think this much time has passed, so it’s high time (no pun intended) I told you about my schedule at Nine Worlds. It was published in the 221 Baker Streets anthology published by Abaddon Books. So, Nine Worlds…. August called Fantasy in the Court. Where aut...
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Life after the war: Rationing | Kitty Gamble
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Writing and historical nerdery. Life after the war: Rationing. For the longest time I couldn’t find any information about this. If you google ‘rationing in world war one’ it just gives you lots of World War Two information. Not that helpful to me. I need to know what food my characters can have – especially for a Christmas story. Christmas is all about food, after all. So here’s what was in the Daily News. About food restrictions in December 1918. Sounds promising, yes? Six hours for whisky/brandy! This ...
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Life after the war – Introduction | Kitty Gamble
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Writing and historical nerdery. Life after the war – Introduction. While researching a story I just finished set in December 1918, I found a wonderful site called ActivePaper Archive. It’s a free archive of several papers – not over the entirety of their run, I don’t think. But it does have the Daily News from December 1918, which was useful to me. I also found the Spectator. Decisions like that led to entirely predictable results: very high levels of STDs. And in December 1918, they were attempting ...
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Life after the war: Rationing and advertising. | Kitty Gamble
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Writing and historical nerdery. Life after the war: Rationing and advertising. Was about the sort of restrictions that existed, and how much traditional Christmas food would have been available. This one is all about how advertising took these shortages into account, because I find it really interesting. Also it’s very late and that’s because I started a day job that is very awesome but until now involved commuting and also it breaks my brain quite a lot. What could possibly go wrong? But by far my favou...
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About | Kitty Gamble
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Writing and historical nerdery. Kitty grew up in Ireland, but has just made a triumphant escape back to the United Kingdom. She spent a year living in London while studying for her masters in law and she loved it. She is currently living in North Wales and job hunting. She hopes one day to resume her legal career. Most of all, though, she is glad to have escaped very small town Ireland to a city with public transport, things to do, and people who haven’t known her all her life. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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About Kitty | Kitty Gamble
https://kittygamble.wordpress.com/2013/09/18/about-kitty
Writing and historical nerdery. Kitty grew up in Ireland, but has just made a triumphant escape back to the United Kingdom. She spent a year living in London while studying for her masters in law and she loved it. She is currently living in North Wales and job hunting. She hopes one day to resume her legal career. Most of all, though, she is glad to have escaped very small town Ireland to a city with public transport, things to do, and people who haven’t known her all her life. Newer Entry →.
