by Ruth A. Symes Link to buy my books Amazon.co.uk: Ruth A Symes: books, biography, latest update Franz Winterhalter, Queen Victoria wearing a floral crown of orange blossom (1847). Via Wikimedia Commons [This article was first published in Family Tree Magazine UK in 2011] Kate Middleton's wedding bouquet follows royal tradition by including a sprig of... Continue Reading →
The Northern Utopia: British Perceptions of Norway in the Nineteenth Century
Ruth A. Symes and Peter Fjagesund, The Northern Utopia: British Perceptions of Norway in the Nineteenth Century, Rodopi, 2003. Link to buy my books Amazon.co.uk: Ruth A Symes: books, biography, latest update
Stodgy or Fruity? : The Stirring Tale of the Christmas Pud
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 →