History 2/2

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Feel free to scroll down the posts below and discover the intriguing - sometimes shocking - discoveries I've made as I've explored my family history.

I hope you enjoy reading them!

Memories with an ironic twist

I was drooling this week over our photos of Snowshill Manor in the Cotswolds, now owned by the National Trust, which we visited at...

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Jun 19, 20201 min read

I enjoyed another episode of the BBC’s The Repair Shop this week – with a box of tissues close to hand, as usual. I don’t seem to be able...

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Jun 12, 20202 min read

Imagine you’ve settled down to read a novel when you suddenly spot the name of one of your ancestors in the text. And not just any...

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May 2, 20203 min read

The Prime Minister spoke this week about the current Coronavirus situation being the biggest crisis in a generation which made me think...

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Mar 20, 20202 min read

I came across my dad's old bank book the other day. It was a Midland Bank savings account and he’d opened it with the sum of 2 shillings...

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Feb 21, 20202 min read

Happy Valentine's Day! A great excuse for browsing the family photograph albums for wedding photos. The style of weddings have changed...

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Feb 14, 20202 min read

As I mentioned in last week’s blog post, I discovered, while browsing the British Newspaper Archives, that, Henry Viner, an ancestor of...

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Jan 17, 20203 min read

A photograph of my great-uncle Tom Diggory, my gran's older brother, always stood proudly on my gran's mantelpiece. Tom had been wounded...

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Nov 8, 20192 min read

It must have been a traumatic experience for my great uncles and great aunt to be admitted to the workhouse in 1886, after their father...

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Oct 18, 20192 min read