Hello Bernard, I have just finished ‘The Burning Land’ and enjoyed the narrative as much as I have enjoyed all your other work. I share a strange common ground with you, being an adoptee of evangelical Christians, having an interest in the Napoleonic War(since finding a 1796 pattern officers light cavalry sabre in the attic when I was fifteen!)I have been researching Hundred Years War archer families through the Southampton University project on muster rolls for a genealogy website to which I contribute (www.wykes.org)and I’ve been doing some work on early English settlers in America and their descendants. One of them has had his DNA tested recently and may be a Romano-British descendant. I teach Art in Wednesbury, West Midlands where Aethelflaeda is still held in high regard. There is an ‘Aethelflaeda Terrace’ where, on the hill, there are the remains of an earthwork which local history says was raised by her as a defence against the Danes and was held against them successfully.Here name is still remembered in Gloucester on the remains of the Abbey where she was buried.Perhaps your books will make her better known further afield.Best wishes to you and all your work, David