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A genealogical journey through poverty, war and love

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“An excellently researched book, and a very readable one too.” Genealogists’ Magazine, Society of Genealogists, UK

“A masterpiece of research and narrative.” Paul & Lucy’s Best Kept Secrets

“Throughout, the prose is graceful, the research meticulous.” Canada’s History Magazine

“Riveting from cover to cover.” Midwest Book Review

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Part 6: Ellen Shelley conclusion
Book Review: The Cowkeeper’s Wish
Part 5: Ellen Shelley, George Smith and the Great War
Part 4: Ellen Shelley and the power of women
Part 3: Ellen Shelley and the Lying-In Hospital
Part 2: Ellen Shelley, the undertaker’s daughter
Part 1: Ellen Shelley, a genealogical case study
Ontario Genealogical Society, Toronto branch
Out from the shadows: Alice Ayres and the Union Street Fire
London’s Houses Falling Down
Two terrors of the Borough
“The Degenerate Cockney”
Uncovering the cover
“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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The elusive Ellen, discovered in the Stone Asylum casebook at the London Metropolitan Archives (City of London). This image appears with their permission.

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