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Comment on Selling history: the role of the past at Fortnum and Mason by...

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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Comment on UKAD Forum 2016: Welcome by Diandra

This is way more helpful than anthniyg else I’ve looked at.

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Comment on The Blue Streak Rocket by Kieron

wow what a good rocket :- )

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Comment 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.

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Comment 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 –...

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Comment 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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Comment on Prosthetics and the First World War by Carianne Whitworth (admin)

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...

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Comment 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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Comment 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...

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Comment 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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Comment on Selling history: the role of the past at Fortnum and Mason by...

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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Comment on UKAD Forum 2016: Welcome by Diandra

This is way more helpful than anthniyg else I’ve looked at.

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Comment on The Blue Streak Rocket by Kieron

wow what a good rocket :- )

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Comment 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.

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Comment 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 –...

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Comment 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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Comment on Prosthetics and the First World War by Carianne Whitworth (admin)

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...

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Comment 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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Comment 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...

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Comment 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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