Author, Genealogist, Historian, Palaeographer, Blogger, Model and Amatuer Photographer
‘His Grief is the Plague’: Poetry of Loss and the risk of losing one’s readers by: Michael R Jacklin University of Wollongong, Australia Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts – Papers. The link below provides an interesting Journal article published by the University of Wollongong – Australia; Literary Studies 28.4 (2013), and written by …
James Pratt and John Smith, the last men to hang for Sodomy in England – Date of Execution: 1835 Although anal sex between consenting male adults is now legal in the UK, this was by no means always the case. Astonishingly, homosexual activity was a criminal offence right up until 1967, when the law was …
Abraham Adams was born in May 1762 at Mr Hardesty’s Bear and Ragged Staff, Mayfair, St George Hanover Square, London. He was born in an apartment rented by his father Abraham Adams Senior for the purpose of his illicit affair with an Elizabeth Burton. Abraham Senior was at the time married to a Priscilla Craister …
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Paint the Sky With Stars was my first published book, the edition is now out of print and due to the subject matter and social interest the book passes hands for high sums of money. Original copies are deposited with the British Library and Durham University Library. The book was reviewed across the country in …
I have been writing about my Ancestors now for a few years, namely by publishing short stories of their lives on my family history blog. Only recently have I decided to bring their lives to print and create their story simply from the fabric of history and the records they appear in. There are lots …