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I Live near Epwell, Oxfordshire and there is no reference on the village website to there being a connection with F&M. I would be interested to learn: 1) where the Epwell connection came from 2)...
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Peta went to live with a retired ex Home Office employee in Dagenham.The lady concerned is now in her 90’s and still adopts stray cats.Peta is buried in her large garden.
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And of course there was Humphrey. Regarded as the first and greatest No 10 cat he was even honoured with a biography written by Willie Rushton. But now all can be revealed, No 10 was never his home –...
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Interesting! I am currently assisting a local historian, Sandra Bemrose in Northampton, to trace soldiers from across the Empire who were treated in Northampton War Hospital and who wrote and drew in a...
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View ArticleComment on Blindness in Victorian Britain by Claire
Thanks for this. I’ve just found one of my ancestors was Born Blind. I found this via the 1871 Census and it gives me an insight into what life was like for her.
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My father, Pvt Gilbert Singleton RASC, (d.o.b. 11.04.1904) survived. He was a non-swimmer but managed to hold on to wreckage, sick with fuel oil ingestion, until many hours later he was picked up by a...
View ArticleComment on Tudor trials: Confessions from the Star Chamber by Amanda Bevan
Some very interesting themes here, especially the cases brought by wives against their husbands. In common law theory this was not possible: on marriage, women lost their individual ‘legal personality’...
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I Live near Epwell, Oxfordshire and there is no reference on the village website to there being a connection with F&M. I would be interested to learn: 1) where the Epwell connection came from 2)...
View ArticleComment on UKAD Forum 2016: Welcome by Diandra
This is way more helpful than anthniyg else I’ve looked at.
View ArticleComment on Bureau-cats: A short history of Whitehall’s official felines by...
Peta went to live with a retired ex Home Office employee in Dagenham.The lady concerned is now in her 90’s and still adopts stray cats.Peta is buried in her large garden.
View ArticleComment on Bureau-cats: A short history of Whitehall’s official felines by...
And of course there was Humphrey. Regarded as the first and greatest No 10 cat he was even honoured with a biography written by Willie Rushton. But now all can be revealed, No 10 was never his home –...
View ArticleComment on Prosthetics and the First World War by Dave Thacker
Interesting! I am currently assisting a local historian, Sandra Bemrose in Northampton, to trace soldiers from across the Empire who were treated in Northampton War Hospital and who wrote and drew in a...
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Hi Dave, thank you for your enquiry. This does sound interesting! I would advise you get in touch with our contact centre who may be able to offer guidance on an appropriate means of making sure your...
View ArticleComment on Blindness in Victorian Britain by Claire
Thanks for this. I’ve just found one of my ancestors was Born Blind. I found this via the 1871 Census and it gives me an insight into what life was like for her.
View ArticleComment on Forgotten tragedy: The loss of HMT Lancastria by Brian Singleton
My father, Pvt Gilbert Singleton RASC, (d.o.b. 11.04.1904) survived. He was a non-swimmer but managed to hold on to wreckage, sick with fuel oil ingestion, until many hours later he was picked up by a...
View ArticleComment on Tudor trials: Confessions from the Star Chamber by Amanda Bevan
Some very interesting themes here, especially the cases brought by wives against their husbands. In common law theory this was not possible: on marriage, women lost their individual ‘legal personality’...
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