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 →
What Your Ancestors’ Neighbours Can Tell You About Them
By Ruth A Symes [This article was first published in Family Tree Magazine UK, 2010] Link to buy my books Amazon.co.uk: Ruth A Symes: books, biography, latest update Author's own collection Neighbours were not a mere backdrop to your ancestors’ lives. They were the people who contributed to its overall flavour and occasionally, they may even... Continue Reading →
A Century of Female Revolution: From Peterloo to Parliament, by Glynnis Cooper, (Pen and Sword Books, 2020).
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 →