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• May 2020 – New book contract and online house history tours - While lockdown has continued, I have been busy with writing up research reports, as well as completing another house history book and a family history book for clients. I have also had fun trying our Zoom conversations with groups of people, joining in some Society of Authors webinars, and joining a WhatsApp group for the...
• April 2020 – NHS nurses and entertaining online resources - My plans to write a blog in March were rather scuppered by the Coronavirus crisis. For me as a self-employed researcher the closure of record offices and libraries has obviously had a major effect on work. Nevertheless, I will be busy for a while yet as I have a large amount of research I had...
• February 2020 – House histories and map resources - I have spent the first few weeks of this year working on house histories in Norfolk, Essex, London and Kent as well as various family histories. The house histories have ranged from a grand fifteenth century manor house, and sixteenth century pub, another pub, which was once the parish poor house, and a one bedroomed...