Women’s History Month – My Four Great Grandmothers

Women’s History Month – My Four Great Grandmothers

by | Mar 28, 2016 | Blog

As March is Women’s History Month, I am focusing on my four great grandmother’s (although there is now some doubt about one of them, but that is a story for a later date). There was a lot of social media activity around International Women’s Day on 8...
Review of Jayne Shrimpton’s Fashion in the 1940s

Review of Jayne Shrimpton’s Fashion in the 1940s

by | Mar 17, 2015 | Blog

Jayne Shrimpton is probably best known in the genealogy research world for her book Tracing Your Ancestors Through Photographs, so I was interested to see what her other books on women’s fashion were like. Fashion in the 1940s published by Shire Books is set...