searchmyancestry – Ruth A. Symes
Innovative approaches to understanding more about your family history
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] On August 16th 1819, some of the marchers at the renowned political demonstration in St Peter’s Fields, Manchester, were wearing the long straight Empire-line dresses fashionable... Continue Reading →
(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 →
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 →
