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Book settings, film locations & potato peelings
Recently I went to see The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society which was a delightful film and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Set...
Wendy Percival
Sep 8, 20182 min read
A genealogy-lit fest!
There's a saying amongst authors, often aimed at new writers, "write what you like to read". So, as well as being an author of genealogy...
Wendy Percival
Aug 30, 20182 min read
The secrets of our bookshelves
I recently took up the challenge to post a photograph on Facebook of the cover of a favourite book each day for 7 days. As the books on...
Wendy Percival
Aug 27, 20181 min read
Opening a can of worms?
Today in 1836 legislation was introduced in Britain, requiring all births, marriages and deaths to be registered. The first certificates...
Wendy Percival
Aug 17, 20182 min read
Visiting the scene of the crime
Today is the anniversary of the tragic Lynmouth flood disaster in August 1952 when a giant wall of water rushed down the steep river...
Wendy Percival
Aug 15, 20182 min read
An Australian coincidence
While researching the family of my Metropolitan Police ancestor, Ernest Ellisdon (read more about him in my post The Whitechapel Murders...
Wendy Percival
Aug 8, 20182 min read
An Australian coincidence
While researching the family of my Metropolitan Police ancestor, Ernest Ellisdon (read more about him in my post The Whitechapel Murders...
Wendy Percival
Aug 8, 20182 min read
Secrets I never knew I had!
The benefit of revisiting old family history research notes is that you may discover a gem of information you never realised you had....
Wendy Percival
Jul 30, 20183 min read
Secrets I never knew I had!
The benefit of revisiting old family history research notes is that you may discover a gem of information you never realised you had....
Wendy Percival
Jul 30, 20183 min read
Ask Esme...
Whenever I meet readers of the Esme Quentin mysteries, they often talk about Esme’s character – why she does what she does, what drives...
Wendy Percival
Jul 23, 20182 min read