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Tag: 19th century

Suffolk/Transcriptions

Baptisms for Shelley, Suffolk, now online!

Posted on 27 August, 2022 by Helen Barrell

Nearly a century of baptisms for Shelley, Suffolk, from 1813 to 1901 now at Essex & Suffolk Surnames! Many thanks to Anthony Tricker for sending me these tr...

Essex/Transcriptions/Updates

More Boxted records!

Posted on 18 June, 2022 by Helen Barrell

Over 1,000 more records added for Boxted, Essex, from 1760 to 1813 – 775 baptisms and 630 burials.

Essex

Talk: Wivenhoe’s epidemics

Posted on 7 July, 2015 by Helen Barrell

Just a quick note – I’m giving a talk for the Wivenhoe History Group at the William Loveless Hall in Wivenhoe on Wednesday 8th July at 7.30pm. All a...

Elsewhere (not Essex or Suffolk)

The Cigarmaker’s Gift

Posted on 13 April, 2015 by Helen Barrell

My great-great-grandfather, James Thomas Ashworth (1849-1890) was a cigarmaker, who lived in Bermondsey. There’s no surviving photos of him, as far as I k...

History

Video: The Secret of the Edwardian Brooch

Posted on 3 December, 2014 by Helen Barrell

This might look like a fairly ordinary photograph brooch, but it has a secret…. Audio transcript (PDF –  40KB)

History

Interview with Janice Preston, historical romance author

Posted on 9 November, 2014 by Helen Barrell

The first book by Janice Preston, historical romance novelist, was published this summer. Mary and the Marquis tells the tale of a widow, who finds an injured m...

Sources

The Taylor family album

Posted on 16 September, 2014 by Helen Barrell

In July, I went to Somerset to visit my dad, and we ended up in the Smuggler’s Cave in Watchet. There’s all sorts of treasures to be found here R...

Elsewhere (not Essex or Suffolk)

Inspector Whicher, Sergeant Cuff, Mr. Holmes, Monsieur Poirot

Posted on 16 September, 2014 by Helen Barrell

Yesterday[1]I started to write this on Christie’s birthday, but this behemoth could not be completed in one day. was Agatha Christie’s 124th birthda...

Elsewhere (not Essex or Suffolk)

Things you’ll see in “Ripper Street” series 3. Honest.

Posted on 11 September, 2014 by Helen Barrell

Filming has finished on the third series of late-Victorian, plaid-encrusted crime-drama Ripper Street. Huzzah! Herewith, illustrated in 19th century engravings,...

Elsewhere (not Essex or Suffolk)

Jack the Ripper DNA test proves… not very much, really

Posted on 8 September, 2014 by Helen Barrell

My friend Anna asked me what I think about the DNA testing which apparently “proves” that Aaron Kosminski was the infamous Jack the Ripper. I posted...

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