Two Nerdy History Girls on YouTube

Two women in a fashion plate dated 1 June 1810

Fashion Plate, Ackermann’s Repository 1 June 1810 courtesy Los Angeles County Public Library

A bit late with this, but at least it’s not time sensitive. For those of you who missed the latest Two Nerdy History Girls chat, courtesy Meena Jain at the Ashland Public Library, it’s now online for your viewing enjoyment. That is to say, we hope it’s enjoyable. Meena starts us off with a question that frequently comes up: Were people dirty and smelly way back then?

You can tune in for the answer here.

 And just in case the link gets sulky or something:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_pviLv3brg

Meena has very kindly invited us back, so please watch for the next Two Nerdy History Girls chat sometime in June.

And in other news: A stellar group of romance authors and I will appear, live and in person, in Ashland, Massachusetts in May. Please watch this space for details as we get closer to the date.

Two Nerdy History Girls: Another return engagement

1856-1871 Fashion Print

©Victoria and Albert Museum, London

You don’t hear from me for months. Then I’m bothering you weekly. This makes sense to me. I don’t send blog posts unless I’ve something to say that doesn’t belong in the Work In Progress.

But an EVENT is coming up soon. Author Susan Holloway Scott and I return under the kind auspices of the Ashland Public Library and Super-librarian Meena Jain to talk nerdy history. Some of you may recall our blog, named, aptly enough Two Nerdy History Girls. It’s still there, still searchable, though we stopped posting a few years ago.

While we’ve stopped posting blogs there, we haven’t stopped being nerdy about history, and so we welcome the opportunity to talk about what we feel is truly interesting about the past. The focus is not on politics and wars but on how people lived: what they wore, what they ate, where they lived, how they got from one place to another. To us, research combines detective work with time travel.

If you read my books, you probably have a bit of interest in the past, too. Maybe you have questions. I do hope so, because that’s fun. Even when we don’t know the answers, you can be sure we’ll jump at the chance to hunt them down.

DETAILS, DETAILS, DETAILS

When: 10 January 7PM

Where: Virtual

To join us, please register at: https://bit.ly/apl-2nerdy3

Live and in person in Concord, Massachusetts

For the first time in what feels like forever, I’ll be doing a live event, along with a stellar group of romance writers.

  • RomCon(cord) Romance Festival

  • Concord Free Public Library

  • Concord, Massachusetts

  • Saturday 24 September

  • 10AM - 3PM

You can register and look at a map by clicking on this link. You can check out the schedule by clicking on this link.

I do hope to see you there.

Meanwhile, please stay tuned for more events.

P.S. And yes, I am still working on the third Difficult Dukes book, and yes, the characters are being more cooperative. But they are not in a hurry, so I must beg your patience. Again. Some more.