Sue Alexander-Barnes

I’m married with four teenage children, and used to be a teacher of ESOL. I currently run my own business around the family, and write into the early hours when everyone else is asleep. Main areas of interest include family life, education, religion (I’m a convert to Catholicism), business, history and human endeavour, as well as astronomy, in which I’m doing a distance learning course.

The master New Age maker of myths

6 Jan 2012 |

tags: Hollywood, New Age

American academic Joseph Campbell profoundly influenced Hollywood. Was it for the best?

The birth of the Berlin Wall

12 Aug 2011 |

tags: Berlin Wall, Communism

It appeared literally overnight, and kept East Germans imprisoned for more than a quarter of a century.

A New Age beyond right and wrong

18 May 2011 |

tags: New Age, religion

New Age beliefs may seem loopy but they influence millions of people.

108 minutes that changed history

12 Apr 2011 |

tags: Cold War, space flight

Fifty years ago today Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space. Will we ever recover the excitement of that moment?