Category Archives: Travel

Our view of the world is distorted – so our worldview is distorted

Posted on January 14, 2025 by Angela

A big thank you to Black History Studies and Mark Simpson, Director of Operations, for the title of this piece and for his insight into the ways different world maps have been put together and how they affect our view … Continue reading →

Posted in Allyship, Antiracism, Black History, Democracy, Education, Equality, History, Human Rights, Morality, Places, Psychology, Racism, Travel, White Allies | Leave a comment

Tom Titanic: a Welsh hero remembered

Posted on April 20, 2023 by Angela

On 15 April I went to Cemaes, the northernmost town on the Ynys Môn coast, with my cousin Alex Leslie, and my sister Lucinda Mackworth-Young. We were there because Cemaes is the town where Thomas William Jones was born, on … Continue reading →

Posted in BLue Plaques, History, Kindness, Places, Talks, Titanic, Travel | 4 Comments

100 Novels That Shaped Our World; free travel with a book and One Green Thing

Posted on November 14, 2019 by Angela

Four women and two men have just chosen 100 Novels That Shaped Our World. The choosers are: Stig Abell, editor of the Times Literary Supplement, Syima Aslam, founder of the Bradford Literature Festival, authors Juno Dawson, Kit de Waal and Alexander … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Creativity, Fiction, Things I'd Love to Have Made, Travel | Leave a comment

Jericho Writers’ Self-Editing Your Novel Course, and the wonders of Atlas Obscura: destinations, food and drink

Posted on December 14, 2018 by Angela

I’m in the final week of Jericho Writers’ Self-Editing your novel course run by Debi Alper and Emma Darwin and all I can say is if you’ve written a first (or even a twenty-first) draft of a novel and you know something’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Drink, Fiction, Food, Places, Rewriting, Storytelling, Third Novel, Travel, Uncategorized, Writing, Writing Courses | Leave a comment