by Ruth A Symes Link to buy my books Amazon.co.uk: Ruth A Symes: books, biography, latest update Via Wikimedia Commons [This article first appeared in Family Tree Magazine UK 2015] Plum pudding was very likely to be found on the Christmas table of most of our families throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With its stodge and... Continue Reading →
An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France Over Three Centuries by Emma Rothschild
(Princeton University Press, 2021) Review by Ruth A Symes Link to buy my books Amazon.co.uk: Ruth A Symes: books, biography, latest update [This review first appeared in Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine UK] Behind the silent records of family history, the past is noisy. Our ancestors were not individuals living in isolation, but members... Continue Reading →
Normal Women by Philippa Gregory
Link to buy my books Amazon.co.uk: Ruth A Symes: books, biography, latest updateReview by Ruth A Symes Written in the colourful and thought-provoking style of Gregory’s historical fiction, this stupendous compendium of the last 900 years of women’s history in England has much to offer the family historian. Injustice against women goes back at least as... Continue Reading →