Who can forget Back to the Future when he manages to totally rewrite history simply because he lets a sports almanac fall into the wrong hands? Updating my family tree, I fairly regularly discover I have given people extra children, who belong to somebody else or have attached a census to the wrong person and …
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What Makes a Life?
I love newspaper archives. I have waded enthusiastically in when one of my youngsters had had a project on the Industrial Revolution. When I had studied this turmultuous period at school, I had found it dull, dry and uninteresting. Wading into The British Newspaper Archives had taught me just how wrong I was. Perhaps having …
End of Life Care
I had never thought I would find a hospice a beautiful place. I heard the phrase today, “End of Life Care” and it had reminded me of watching my friend’s final bravely-fought battle. The brightest light in the whole experience for me was the hospice. So much was going on in my life at the …
Voice of Fountain Hughes-A Former Slave
Fountain Hughes, the former slave captured my imagination, so I have felt compelled to discover a little more about him. Voice of Fountain Hughes Transcript of Recording Currently I have been trying to discover the father of Fountain Hughes. I note that I have discovered a Fountain Hughes on the Union side in the 48th …
Drawing a Line in the Sand
There are moments in life when something totally different bursts into the light. One of the first such moments for me was Fawlty Towers. We had almost accidentally changed channels when the scary, outlandish Basil Fawlty had made his first magical appearance. Basil was a real groundbreaker at the time, offensive yet irresistable. Simply Irresistable-Robert …
William Wilberforce and The Abolition of The Slave Trade
John Henry Kruger admitted to being decidedly against the abolition of the slave trade but had no objection in going onto a committee on it, He had heard much about benevolence and humanity but where were they to look for a just compensation for their losses?Were individuals to be sacrificed at the shrine of public …
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