Writing family history
Alison BaxterHistory told through the lives of ordinary people
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Edith Hume, a Cornish artist ...
Coast scene, Edith Hume, Victoria and Albert museum, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Well I seem to have had a bit of a bounce in subscriber numbers since the release of my novel, so welcome to all new subscribers and thank you to exi...
A Victorian novel for today
Today is publication day for my novel, A Fatal Choice. It’s both exciting and intimidating to be publishing a work of fiction for the first time and I’m very grateful to everyone who has pre-ordered it. I wrote here about the story that ins...
A Victorian asylum
Longwood House
I’m not going to bore you with a lengthy complaint about the insanely high temperatures we’ve been experiencing this week, but do please forgive any errors in this post. It is too hot to think clearly!
I’m intending to writ...
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...
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Writer of fiction and non-fiction about forgotten lives, inspired by family history from Cornwall, Scotland, and further afield. Author of 'A Fatal Choice', 'A Cornish Cargo', and 'Another Song at Sunset'. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
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