Writing family history
Alison BaxterHistory told through the lives of ordinary people
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For those in peril on the sea
I’ve written before about how I fell into maritime history by accident, when I inherited the logbook kept by my great-grandmother’s brother, ship’s engineer Ernest Dupen.
This week I’ve been thinking about the seafarers stranded by the clo...
A Fatal Choice
I must apologise for my absence from Substack over the past few weeks. I was dismayed when I realised I hadn’t posted anything for the best part of a month, but it was for a good reason. I was checking the final proofs of my very first hist...
When fact and fiction collide
Ten years ago I was lucky enough to be in Japan at cherry blossom time. I say lucky, but it was of course timed very carefully, with much anxious checking of the online blossom calendar. After I got back I wrote a very short post about it,...
Roughing it in the bush (2)
On Lake Mutadenenadod, North Shore, Lake Huron. John Herbert Caddy c. 1853 Library and Archives Canada
In Part 1 of this post I wrote about the experience of immigrants arriving in Quebec. In Part 2 we’re going to follow them to their fina...
Roughing it in the bush
In September 1973 I arrived in Quebec to take up a place at Université Laval to do a master’s degree in French-Canadian literature. It had been a long and exhausting journey. A tedious eight-hour flight from London to Montreal, in the days...
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Writer of non-fiction about the forgotten lives of so-called ordinary people, inspired by family history from Cornwall, Scotland, and further afield. Author of 'A Cornish Cargo' and 'Another Song at Sunset'. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
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