Do you have any budding journalists in the family? It is amazing what fun it can be to make your own magazines especially when a number of you collaborate to put them together. When my own children were young they spent hours putting together and publishing CED Times. CED stands for Christian Education for Deeside which was the home education group we went to on Fridays. A number of the children were involved and they ran competitions, wrote articles, drew pictures and took photographs. In those far off days it was all done directly onto paper. I think they even pasted it together physically! Nowadays it is easier to send articles and pictures via the internet and to put them together. There are a number of Mothers' Companion users who have magazines at the moment and are looking for articles and contributions as well as subscribers. You can read about three nature magazines here, and a railway magazine here. Information about a farming and countryside magazine can be had by contacting the editor at [email protected] . So if you would like to contribute or subscribe get in touch. If you already have a magazine yourself and would like to tell others about or if you start one after reading this, let me know and I'll pass the message on!
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As a family we always found reading aloud was a major (and very enjoyable) part of home education. I'm also convinced that historical fiction can help youngsters get interested in history so I've tried hard to pack accurate background and events into an exciting story in my latest book. Wulfgar and the Vikings is due out in September this year from John Ritchie and I've concentrated on creating something that reads aloud well. Along with the battles, escapes and other excitement there is a strong Gospel message in the book so I hope it will be a valuable read on many levels. I made my way through shelves of books while doing the research and in case anyone is interested I've attached a file below this post where you can read about some of the background things I discovered together with a (pruned) bibliography. We know much about what the Anglo-Saxon's wore, their houses, their jewellery and how they farmed the land. But how did they think? What did they believe? How much did they know about the Bible? What about the most famous Anglo-Saxon of all, King Alfred the Great? Was he a Christian? Modern research seems to indicate that although there had been some knowledge of Christianity in Britain for a very long time, in some places the Anglo-Saxons of Alfred's day had never really understood it or abandoned their pagan beliefs. Although I am only guessing, of course, it is quite possible that somewhere in Wessex in those war-torn times there was a village where... but I must not give away too much of the story! Just let me know if you want to know when the book is out and I'll add your name to the list.
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