{"id":1964,"date":"2017-02-13T10:35:24","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T10:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/?p=1964"},"modified":"2017-02-13T10:40:10","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T10:40:10","slug":"the-history-sphere-by-katy-chalk-darwin-1997","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/2017\/02\/13\/the-history-sphere-by-katy-chalk-darwin-1997\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The History Sphere&#8217; by Katy Chalk (Darwin, 1997)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alumna Kathy Elkins has had a varied career; starting with nursing, moving on to NHS administration and then studying at Kent and finally achieving her Masters in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>She has now become an author (pen name Katy Chalk) and written a children&#8217;s fantasy novel called &#8216;The History Sphere&#8217;. \u00a0\u00a0As an alumna of the Classical Archaeology and comparative Literature\u00a0Studies programme, Kathy believes that learning history should be fun.<\/p>\n<p>Consequently, the story of &#8216;The History Sphere&#8217; follows the malevolent theft of five discs of pivotal history from the titular &#8216;History Sphere&#8217; by an evil warlock, intent on altering world history. \u00a0Only eleven-year-old Olivia and her dog Archie can stop him!<\/p>\n<p>Kathy now lives in Maidstone, has two grown up children and three grandchildren, including Olivia, who is the heroine of the story.<\/p>\n<p>The novel is available through Amazon and local distributors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alumna Kathy Elkins has had a varied career; starting with nursing, moving on to NHS administration and then studying at Kent and finally achieving her &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/2017\/02\/13\/the-history-sphere-by-katy-chalk-darwin-1997\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34788,"featured_media":1967,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[118124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34788"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1964"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1968,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964\/revisions\/1968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}