Posted in the Past Hands Across the Sea: Revealing the true stories written on postcards by our adventurous...

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Helen Baggott

Posted in the Past Hands Across the Sea

Revealing the true stories written on postcards by our adventurous travelling ancestors

Helen Baggott

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Stourcastle Books
25 August 2023

Reference works; Genealogy, heraldry, names & honours; Military vehicles; Ships & shipping: general interest; Family history, tracing ancestors

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The teenager lashed to the side of Robert Stephenson's yacht in a storm as she sailed with him to Egypt, and other true stories

Georgina Ballantine, who landed a record-breaking salmon that was almost as long as she was tall... A family who ran a hotel in Southampton's 'Titanic Street'... Cornwall's engineering genius who invented the Banbury Mixer - still a milestone in America's tyre industry... Archer Baldwin, the British MP born in a cabin in Tennessee... The Thompson sisters who worked on the first Oxford English Dictionary... Poor Lizzie, who was almost swept overboard sailing to the Isle of Man... all are connected by postcards, sent more than a hundred years ago.

If you have researched your own family's history or enjoyed watching programmes that explore our ancestry through genealogy and DNA, you'll know how thrilling it is to discover an ancestor with a story. Using genealogy resources, this new collection of true stories begins with postcards sent by our ancestors as they travelled the world - some finding happiness, others only tragedy.

Praise for the Posted in the Past series

An enjoyable and intriguing look at the past

Who Do You Think You Are? magazine

Detailed & often poignant... These stories are a true snapshot of the golden age of postcards - Family Tree magazine

By: Helen Baggott
Imprint: Stourcastle Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 290g
ISBN: 9781916107021
ISBN 10: 1916107028
Pages: 214
Publication Date: 25 August 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active