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Wendy Percival
- Oct 9, 2020
- 2 min
From one mystery to more
Sometimes in family history a simple trail can explode in all directions, creating a myriad of new lines of enquiry. Which is what...
Wendy Percival
- Oct 2, 2020
- 3 min
Assaulted in the Line of Duty
This week saw the anniversary of London’s Metropolitan Police appearing on the streets of England’s capital for the first time, in 1839....
Wendy Percival
- Sep 25, 2020
- 2 min
My mystery photo pouch
Every now and again, I take out one of my favourite mystery packages, a small leatherette pouch full of (mostly) unnamed photographs, and...
Wendy Percival
- Sep 18, 2020
- 2 min
Birthday of a Black Sheep
Today is the 170th birthday of one of the Black Sheep of my family – Edward Henry Coules Colley. It was a while before I found out...
Wendy Percival
- Sep 11, 2020
- 2 min
Mystery of the Opera
Having corroborated the previously unknown story of my grandmother’s time spent at boarding school, (see On the Trail of the Mystery...