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Writing family history

Alison Baxter

History told through the lives of ordinary people

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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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Travelling through the Suez Canal

In an earlier post, An Englishman Abroad, I published extracts from the logbook of 4th engineer Ernest Dupen. This time I thought I’d share his experience of travelling through the Suez Canal, with rather more detail than I was able to incl...

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The Dunecht body theft

I’m a bit late with my first post of 2026 so I’ll begin with belated good wishes for a happy new year, though it looks unlikely that it will be a particularly happy one, given the current state of the world. To take my mind off the news, I’...

2 months ago
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Who do we count as family?

I was inspired to write this post after receiving a remarkable image from a newly discovered distant cousin. The child in the picture is believed to be Sharrock Semmens Dupen, my great-grandmother’s oldest brother, born on Christmas Day 183...

2 months ago
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Authors

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  • Alison Baxter

    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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