Book Review by Ruth A Symes Link to buy my books Amazon.co.uk: Ruth A Symes: books, biography, latest update This book gives vibrant voice to those women – many of them under the age of 20 when they first joined up – who entered the ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service), Women’s Auxiliary Airforce (WAAF), and Women’s Royal... 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 →
Family First: Tracing Relationships in The Past
(Hardback title, Pen and Sword, 2016)) By Ruth A Symes Buy my book at Amazon, click this link. Husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, children, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents - these are the relationships that structure the family tree and fascinate the family historian. But how much do we really know about how our ancestors... Continue Reading →