I love research, and find it hard to let go of it and get on with what I really should be doing – focusing on the WRITING, and putting all my research work to good use. I particularly enjoy looking at the adverts in The Strand magazines, 1900-1910 ( another enjoyable… Read More Researching Miss Violet Charlesworth
5 things to cheer you up Entering a short story competition and being longlisted. The Oxford Flash Fiction Prize. Better still being shortlisted. I’ll have to wait for the short list in a week or two, to find out whether I’m in the running. Discovering WORDIPLY- the Guardian’s answer to WORDLE. An excellent word game,… Read More Beyond grey skies
It’s a bumper edition of the Widows of Tounson Almshouses this month. Four censuses to cover. It’s been useful to know that this year is the 150th anniversary of the introduction of the Census. The genealogy magazine Who Do You Think You Are is writing about each census year. The current July edition has reached… Read More The Widows of Tounson Part 3 – 1841-1871
Online research can take you in many directions, often deviating down minor roads and paths away from the route you thought you were taking – the subject you are studying. And so, as I clicked through pages of the Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette of 1890 on the British Newspaper Archive (BNA) looking for news of… Read More Llanerch Colliery disaster 1890
I have been obsessed with this picture ever since I came across it while researching my history of C. & T. Harris book. It was taken in 1900 by the Rev Robert Wheeler, who was minister of Calne Free Church for fifty years, and lived at No 1 The Green, opposite the Almshouses where the… Read More The Eight Widows of Tounson Almshouses – Part 1
Alphabetical Days O is for out and about & odds and ends Calne, Bromham, Devizes and Market Lavington
