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LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans) History Month 2018
LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans) History Month takes place every year in February and celebrates the lives and achievements of the LGBT community. This is an opportunity to learn more about the...
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Magic, Witches and Evil: An Unexpected Find in Staines Part one
!!!WARNING!!!! THIS POST DOES CONTAIN GRAPHIC IMAGES OF A 19TH CENTURY DEAD ANIMAL WITHIN AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONTEXT. Staines-upon-Thames town centre has been undergoing a programme of regeneration in...
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Magic, Witches and Evil: An Unexpected Find in Staines Part two
Following on from part one we continue to look at superstition and objects associated with warding off evil in Surrey. Throughout archaeological or building work we regularly find hidden objects such...
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Suffrage in Egham
Amy Stone Guest blog: Amy Stone, Cultural Engagement Officer (Suffrage in Egham Project), Egham Museum The ‘Suffrage in Egham’ project aimed to uncover the local impact of the suffrage movement and...
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A Woman of Mystery!
You really can’t always trust what your ancestors say on the census – or on other documents for that matter. My father’s maternal grandfather modestly describes himself as a ‘Cotton Spinner’ on the...
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A School Day
The Daily Routine by Wolfgang E. Elston (formerly Edelstein) Wolf arrived in Stoatley Rough at 1 am on a cold February night in 1939 accompanied by his 14 year old brother Gerd and a distant cousin who...
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History ∼ Archives ∼ Reunions ∼ Scrapbook I left Kassel to continue my education at Stoatley Rough School in England in April 1937. I did so because that is what my parents had decided, not because I...
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Holistic Family History
Anyone who knows me or who has been on any of my family history courses will know how I bang on about holistic family history research. That is, not just researching the person but the landscape and...
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Women get the vote!
Suffrage and the First World War At the outbreak of the First World War some but not all of the suffrage societies suspended militant tactics to focus on the war effort. The government in response...
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George Meredith (1828-1909)
Champion of women, writer, novelist, and poet Copy portrait of George Meredith, [by William Biscombe Gardner, after G.F. Watts wood engraving, c.1893], from Abinger Women’s Institute Scrapbook (SHC ref...
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