Whistlestop Xmas History Tour : how your ancestors decorated for Christmas!

[A version of this article first appeared in Discover Your Ancestors Online Periodical - December 2015]. http://www.discoveryourancestors.co.uk/ Link to buy my books Amazon.co.uk: Ruth A Symes: books, biography, latest update Girl's Own Paper December 20th 1884, Vol VI, No.260. Greenery and fruit, sparkle and snow, colourfully-dressed tables and walls inscribed with Yuletide mottos - Christmases past were decorated using much... Continue Reading →

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Armistice: How Our Ancestors Threw Off the Restrictions of World War One

By Ruth A Symes [A version of this article was first published in Family Tree Magazine in 2018] Link to buy my books Amazon.co.uk: Ruth A Symes: books, biography, latest update Civilians celebrating the end of World War One by climbing on a captured German 10cm Kanone 17 field artillery gun exhibited in Waterloo Place, London,... Continue Reading →

November 9, 2025 1

The Queen’s Halloween

by Ruth A. Symes [This article was first published in Scots Heritage Magazine in 2016] Balmoral in earlier days, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert bought Balmoral in 1848 after spending a happy holiday in the Highlands. In 1853, the original house (believed to date from the 13th century) was knocked down and a new, larger... Continue Reading →

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