Essential Reading

'I have been a family historian for more than 40 years, and a professional historian for over 30, but as I read it, I was constantly encountering new ways of looking at my family history....Essential reading I would say!' Alan Crosby, WDYTYA Magazine

Sunday, 10 December 2017

Ancestors' Advent Calendar: Dec 10th : Try a Little Cross-Dressing!

         
Christmas 1888: Wikimedia Commons


Court Proceedings
  • 'Last Christmas, she was dressed up as a man. It was for 'a lark' and others did the same...' 
          Nottinghamshire Guardian 26 January 1877
  • 'Did you not last Christmas night dress up in a suit of your husband's clothes and walk up and down the streets smoking a cigar?'
          Chelmsford Chronicle 15th April 1898


How do you dress up for Christmas? Use the Comments box below.



                                                     Yesterday's Ancestors Advent Idea




Four family history books with a difference....













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