Husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, children, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents - these are the relationships that structure the family tree and fascinate the family historian. But how much do we really know about how our ancestors lived out these multiple roles? Buffeted this way and that by economic developments, legal changes, medical advances, Two World Wars, the rise of the Welfare State, women's emancipation and many other factors, relationships between members of our family … [Read more...] about Family First: Tracing Relationships in the Past by Ruth A Symes by Ruth A Symes
Interview with Author – Lisa Eveleigh
About Lisa Eveleigh: I work in publishing as a literary agent and represent mainly commercial and literary fiction, but have always loved reading biography in my free time, impelled, I suspect, by sheer curiousity about the lives of others. The novels of Georgette Heyer inspired my love of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and my first book 'Beauty and Chivalry', which tells the story of the famous ball shortly before Waterloo, is an expanded version of an essay which I wrote … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Lisa Eveleigh
Once I Was A Teenager: Growing Up In The 50s And 60s In Australia And Beyond by Jonquil Graham
A funny nostalgic memoir of how it felt to be a teenager in the 60s whether you lived in America, Australia or the UK. Recall your mother's pithy sayings, societal changes, food, fashions, schooling, teenage rebellion, boys, sex, 21st birthdays, surfing, the impact of rock 'n roll and Beatlemania, job opportunities, sea voyages, hitch-hiking, doing the hippie trail and much much more. A fun flashback to an era that doesn't exist now. Targeted Age Group:: baby boomers What Inspired You to … [Read more...] about Once I Was A Teenager: Growing Up In The 50s And 60s In Australia And Beyond by Jonquil Graham
The Thursday Jug [Memories of an Edwardian Childhood] by Theo Flower
This book is bargain priced from 03/14/2014 until 06/14/2014 Thoe Flower's father, founder of the Ashanti Gold Mines, died before she was born - succumbing to fever aboard ship on a journey home from Africa. Proudly, Theo would tell everyone that whereas most children had only one father in heaven, she had two. In this delightful memoir, the late author recalls a childhood spent in Edwardian London, where Nanny was the centre of her young life. Illustrated with black and white family … [Read more...] about The Thursday Jug [Memories of an Edwardian Childhood] by Theo Flower
