I spent seven years (2014-21) researching and writing my first book, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I wove the fictional tale around actual historical events, locations and people. Of course it is a work of fiction, so the characters’ thoughts and deeds are my invention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I find this history endlessly fascinating and I wanted to share that fascination with you, and have a conversation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Putting dry facts into a human context is a challenge, one that I hope to have helped you with in Predestination<\/em>. By ‘human context’ I primarily mean their relationships. Many people have said to me “I hated history at school; all those dates and names,” and I would agree that they are almost impossible to absorb and retain. However, I believe that when you can see the causal relationships between people and events then they start to make more sense. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Example: Henry VIII was worried about his dynasty (his lack of male heirs) so swapped* his original wife for a newer model <\/p>\n\n\n\n (*repeat 5 times). <\/p>\n\n\n\n We can all remember that, even though we will probably struggle with the dates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In this blog I aim to delve into the historical events, locations and people, that Jack, Kat and their friends find themselves experiencing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n My hope is that this will provide a deeper and more immersive experience for us all to enjoy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Oh, and pictures of course. <\/p>\n\n\n\n If you have a photo to share I would love to see it on the blog, expanding our collective understanding of the period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Until then, happy reading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I spent seven years (2014-21) researching and writing my first book, Predestination I wove the fictional tale around actual historical events, locations and people. Of course it is a work of fiction, so the characters’ thoughts and deeds are my invention. I find this history endlessly fascinating and I wanted to share that fascination with you, and … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jadownes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jadownes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jadownes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jadownes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jadownes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jadownes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1079,"href":"https:\/\/jadownes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions\/1079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jadownes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jadownes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jadownes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jadownes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Julian<\/h5>\n\n\n\n\n