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Chapter 7 – Martha Bedford, late 1880s

On March 29, 2018 By kristendenhartog

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Chapter 7 – Martha Bedford, late 1880s

Posts about way back when

  • 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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Doris, left, with Emily Morely, circa 1920
Chapter 7 - Martha Bedford, late 1880s
Chapter 15 - Bebbie, early 1920s
Chapter 7 - Reverse of Martha Bedford portrait
Chapter 16 - Florence, left, and Mary Cartwright, 1926
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.
Doris passport, 1918
Chapter 15 - Bebbie and Doris, 1920s
Chapter 17 - Doris, second from right, with some of Bill's siblings
Doris's dance class
Chapter 11 - My Little Pal - reverse of Doris 1916
George, Jack and Bill Cartwright, McCormick's picnic, 1916
Chapter 4 - Reverse of Mary Anne and Jenny post card
Chapter 15 - Doris, 1921
Benjamin and Margaret Jones
1900s Harry and Mary Ann sepia

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