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...
View ArticleComment 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...
View ArticleComment 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.
View ArticleComment 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...
View ArticleComment 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’...
View ArticleComment on The civil service in the First World War by Alan Humphries
I was responsible for most of the research and the creation and upkeep of the Board of Trade Memorial website, until both it and myself were given ‘early retirement’. I did try to keep lists of and...
View ArticleComment on Adlestrop: railways, poetry and the myths of 1914 by David Pearce
I thought this was a wonderful talk when I first came across it several years ago. Adlestrop is a favourite poem for me, but I know it and have listened to readings by great voices, such as Richard...
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Comment on Webinar: Using Discovery for family history by Steve
An excellent presentation that explains the use of the TNA catalogue, a text version of this should have been available from the start. Audrey, you have become my TNA goto hero
View ArticleComment on Bureau-cats: A short history of Whitehall’s official felines by...
Absolutely lovely, but the volume level could do with a tweak up.
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