Happy New Year! I’m looking forward to another great year of blogging. Here’s what I’ve got lined up: Book reviews.…
10th December 1840. William Smith was transported to Van Diemen’s Land on the ship ‘Duncan’ for a fourteen year sentence.…
I hate to get up in the morning when the sun is still in bed. I’ll spend the whole day…
11th November 1918. Charles William Scott, a Private in the 1st Kent Cyclist Battalion (British Army Cyclist Corps), died in…
The dark is pressing at the windows. I draw the curtains and dim the lights to deter trick-or-treaters. I’ve just…
As Halloween approaches, there are going to be some suitably sinister blog posts here, starting from tomorrow. I thought it…
I should be working on my writing but Youtube vids are more exciting. I must make plot notes in my…
15th September 1685. Elizabeth Richards was born in St Michael Parish, Barbados. Her parents were Lattimerr and Judith. She was…
26th August 1922. Georgette Jeanne Pesquet married Salvatore Muscat in Paris. This was recorded as an Anglo-French marriage. Georgette’s parents…
3rd August 1905. Margaret Jane Williams was born. 34 years later, she lived in Rhondda, Glamorganshire and was a school…