
History told through the lives of ordinary people
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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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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...
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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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