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Doris, left, with Emily Morely, circa 1920

On March 27, 2018 By kristendenhartog

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Doris, left, with Emily Morely, circa 1920

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“This is the family history I wish I had written…. A combination of meticulous and genealogical research and fluid writing makes this a book that shouldn’t be missed. It is a perfect example of how both standard and unusual sources can be used creatively to allow us to imagine the details of our ancestors’ lives beyond the basic names and dates and places.”

Marian Press, Toronto Tree (Ontario Genealogical Society, TO Branch)

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  • “There is no more detestable creature …”
  • The scented valentines of perfumer Eugene Rimmel
  • Lloyd’s “Long Lost Relatives” and the children of workhouse schools
  • Marrying your uncle, and other brow-raisers
  • The patient, the doctor, and his “facsimile”
  • Christmas in 1905: Stimulating the Economy Edwardian-style
  • Christmas weddings in Victorian England
  • Germans in England in WW1
  • “The stinky London of Charles Dickens”
  • “Sudden mental derangement” at East India House
  • Our grandmother’s scrapbook
  • War, PTSD, and “the Golden Rule Exchange”
  • Picnic Hill
  • An eccentric old woman and her ferocious black cat
  • Loss of the Mary Rose and Strongbow
  • An unknown soldier and an unconventional woman
  • Woman in White
  • Kate’s Story
  • The Power of Craft: Occupational Therapy in WW1
  • Meg Dods’ Stuffing and the Legacy of a Temperance Man
  • The Fashionable Craze of Today: A Victorian Tattoo Artist
  • A Victorian mourning card
  • The Crinoline Fires
  • Imagining the Radio Hour
  • Lost and found: a WW1 nurse
  • Mona Powder, Manx Perfume, and High-Class Boots
  • The Canary Girls of WW1
  • Singing in the Streets of London
  • “I am left a widow…”
  • Shell Shock, Unrequited Love, and Murder
  • Suicide of a Workhouse Midwife
  • The Fur-Puller’s Child
  • Descended of Rogues and Thieves
  • Two Flower Sellers, Poison, and a Mean Old Man
  • The Fighting Parson
  • Inspector of Nuisances

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  • 1830s-1913: In Darkest London
  • 1914-1920: The Noise of War
  • 1919-1930s: The Forest City
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1900s Harry and Mary Ann sepia
Chapter 16 - Florence, left, and Mary Cartwright, 1926
Chapter 11 - My Little Pal - reverse of Doris 1916
Doris passport, 1918
The elusive Ellen, discovered in the Stone Asylum casebook at the London Metropolitan Archives (City of London). This image appears with their permission.
The elusive Ellen, discovered in the Stone Asylum casebook at the London Metropolitan Archives (City of London). This image appears with their permission.
George, Jack and Bill Cartwright, McCormick's picnic, 1916
Chapter 15 - Doris, 1921
Doris, left, with Emily Morely, circa 1920
Chapter 7 - Martha Bedford, late 1880s
Chapter 4 - Reverse of Mary Anne and Jenny post card
Chapter 7 - Reverse of Martha Bedford portrait
Chapter 15 - Bebbie, early 1920s
Benjamin and Margaret Jones
Doris's dance class
Chapter 15 - Bebbie and Doris, 1920s
Chapter 17 - Doris, second from right, with some of Bill's siblings

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