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Taste the past at Mary Allott’s Table
Now available to buy Immerse yourself in middle-class Victorian England with Mary Allott’s meticulously kept recipe book. Compiled amidst the turmoil of a life challenged by the abandonment of her spouse, this collection stands as a beacon of Mary’s inner fortitude as she expressed her creativity and dedicated herself to her family’s nourishment and well-being.…
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On the BBC! A family history audio Factual Tale – ‘Buried Letters’
Buried Letters A short award-winning family history audio factual tale based on Chloris Drabble. On completion of her nursing qualification in 1917 Chloris left nursing in the Huddersfield Infirmary to join the Scottish Women’s 7th Field Hospital at Lake Ostrovo in Macedonia, where she fell in love with a Serbian interpreter and was irrevocably changed.
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Who Do You Think You Are? Family Hero
Despite Walter’s reluctance to discuss his past, I have come to know him better through thinking about the consequences of his mother’s alcoholism and his rural Victorian upbringing.
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Graham Carter: Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard
She pulls no punches on awkward subjects that crop up in her own family, including alcoholism, plus the story of her grandfather (and now my hero), who changed the course of the family history when he refused to doff his cap to the local lord of the manor’s estates manager.
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Our Ancestors’ Psychology: An Interview with Lisa Louise Cooke on the Family Tree Magazine Podcast.
In episode 152 of the Family Tree Podcast, Lisa Louise Cooke interviews author Helen Parker-Drabble about how so-called “modern” mental health problems like anxiety or depression shaped the lives of our ancestors, and how understanding their experiences can benefit future generations.
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Sweet And Sour Valentines
People were also encouraged to buy mocking Valentines. Sometimes Victorian men sent derisive cards, featuring taunts about baldness and alcoholism, for example. However, I suspect women were the main perpetrators of the mean Valentine.
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Teasing Out Psychological Inheritance-for family historians
Tragically, in any family, there will be those who suffered abuse, physical or mental ill-health, disability, starvation, imprisonment, bigamy, persecution, trauma and abandonment. All of these factors can trickle down the family tree, impacting future generations.
