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#TwiceRemoved with Tara Morton
Discover your suffragist ancestors and learn about their fight for women to vote with expert guest Tara Morton.
28 January 2022 No Comments
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#TwiceRemoved with Packed With Potential
Anne Lister, a diarist, shot to fame when she became the subject of the brilliant BBC Drama Gentleman Jack. But who was the real Anne Lister? What can her diaries, which famously recorded her intimate relationships with women, tell us? What else did she record and why are her diaries so important?
21 May 2021 No Comments
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#TwiceRemoved with Sarah Murden
Historian Sarah Murden takes us back in time to explore our Georgian ancestors. What was life like for our working ancestors? Why was there such a big divide between poor and rich? How long did they live and why was everyone so obsessed with getting married? Sarah answers all this and more!
14 May 2021 No Comments
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#TwiceRemoved with Julia Laite
Historian Julia Laite joins me to explore the lives of our late 19th Century and early 20th Century working class female ancestors. Julia explains what life was like as a domestic servant. We delve into the aspirations and exploitations of those female ancestors.
7 May 2021 No Comments
Hints and Tips
Maiden Name Research Strategies You Need To Know
Having a tool kit of maiden name research strategies is essential to tracing your family history. Tracking down female ancestors presents unique challenges. Primarily, because
5 March 2020 No Comments
Social History
Women’s Hair: A History
Faced with loosing my own hair, I began to ask questions. Why did I care so much about my hair? Why is our hair important?
14 January 2020 No Comments
Occupations
Explore Victorian Monthly Nurses, Midwives & Wet Nurses
As a mother, historic attitudes towards pregnancy and childbirth, have always fascinated me. Recently, I researched a client’s ancestor – a woman who spent a lo
20 February 2018 No Comments