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(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 →
(Pen and Sword 2021) By Ruth A Symes Link to buy my books Amazon.co.uk: Ruth A Symes: books, biography, latest update An impressive forensic examination of the hitherto hidden history of female detectives working outside formal police structures, Sister Sleuths looks at all kinds of women investigators, from neighbourhood snoops, through paid sleuths (who worked part-time alongside other... 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 →
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