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How Key Psychological Theories Can Enrich Our Understanding of Our Ancestors
How Key Psychological Theories Can Enrich Our Understanding of Our Ancestors and Help Improve Mental Health for Present and Future Generations: A Family Historian’s Perspective: A Family Historian’s Perspective A printed edition of an article that first appeared in Genealogy’s Special Issue Focus on’ Family Historians: How Ancestor Research Affects Self-Understanding and Well-Being’. The article…
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To everything there is a season (Short Story)
A bittersweet factual tale of love, loss and new purpose set 1908 inspired by a family photograph. My factual tales are a tapestry of fact, researched speculation and fiction, which are inspired by and embellish my family history. However, the plots are driven by historical records. Henry Drabble, once a clay miner, became a fire…
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Buried Letters (Short Story)
Lest we forget Award-winning creative writing inspired by Chloris Drabble, who joined the Scottish Women’s 7th Field Hospital at Lake Ostrovo in Macedonia, in 1917, where she fell in love with a Serbian interpreter and was irrevocably changed. Available in my shop My factual tales are a tapestry of fact, researched speculation and fiction, which…
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A facsimile reproduction of Victorian Recipe Book: A Handwritten Book of Family Receipts started by Mrs C. A. Allott of Sheffield, (England), 1860
Available in my shop as an eBook 978-1-9162466-4-5 , paperback 978-1-9162466-5-2 or hardback 978-1-9162466-6-9. See a sample here What did a Victorian woman’s kitchen actually hold? Mary Allott’s handwritten recipe book, kept from 1860 to 1912, is a rare surviving document from a life the historical record noted and failed to follow. Over 280 recipes,…
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A Victorian’s Inheritance
A Victorian’s Inheritance: What Your Ancestors’ Struggles Mean for Your Life Today ‘This groundbreaking book changed the way I think about my ancestors and living family.’ — Jenny, UK What psychological inheritance have you received from your ancestors? About the Book We inherit more than heirlooms. The struggles, triumphs, and even traumas of our forebears…
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‘Yet’: A Story of Triumph over Childhood Separation, Trauma, and Disability
Silver Award, Nonfiction Book Awards Runner-up, Alan Ball Award for Best Hardcopy Publication 2025 Featured in Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine, May 2026 ‘No one believed me. “Children couldn’t have been treated like that.” But we were.’ — Harry Drabble ‘Yet’ is the powerful true story of Harry Drabble, a disabled child separated…
