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

Thursday, 21 December 2017

Ancestors' Advent Calendar: Dec 21st: Sit and Watch the Snow!

‘It is a picturesque sight to lounge in a sybaritic arm-chair, in a warm sitting room and watch the fine feathery flakes as they float fantastically down and beautify the brutal bricks and mortar, to see the gaunt and grimy chimney-stacks grow fairy-like and spectral, and the bare boughs of black trees clothed under a foliage of dazzling white.’




By Tony Hisgett from Birmingham, UK (Robin in the snow 1  Uploaded by Magnus Manske) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
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