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 →
A History of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts: Brownies, Rainbows and WAGGGS by Julie Cook
Book Review by Ruth A Symes Link to buy my books Amazon.co.uk: Ruth A Symes: books, biography, latest update If your ancestor was a Girl Guide at any time since the inception of the movement in 1910, this book will enable you vividly to imagine what that experience would have been like. Cook skilfully interweaves Guiding... Continue Reading →
Unearthing Family Tree Mysteries
by Ruth A Symes Link to buy my books Amazon.co.uk: Ruth A Symes: books, biography, latest update Unearthing Family Tree Mysteries: Amazon.co.uk: Ruth A Symes: 9781473862944: Books The intriguing characters in these real family history mysteries include an agricultural labourer who left secrets behind in Somerset when he migrated to Manchester, a working-class woman who bafflingly... Continue Reading →