Little Buttons Telling Big Stories

Catherine Pincott-Allen

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Lost Voices Publishing
16 December 2025

Biography: historical, political & military; Reference works; British & Irish history; Genealogy, heraldry, names & honours; Family history, tracing ancestors

From lunatic asylums and domestic violence to love stories, success, bankruptcy and suicide, these are just a few of the stories unpicked from the small four-holed tailor's buttons The Field Detectives have found in Nottinghamshire. People and families have been brought back to life through the names and places branded on these simple buttons, which made their way onto the fields around the Grantham Canal via the Nottingham night soil collections throughout the mid-19th to early 20th centuries.

Catherine Pincott-Allen has meticulously researched each of the tailors featured, and their stories are voiced through newspaper reports, parish records and other historical documents.

Not every button found belonged to a Nottingham tailor; many of them came from as far away as Scotland and London.

Little Buttons Telling Big Stories aims to appeal to people interested in Nottingham's history and those with tailors in their ancestry. Also, any metal detecting enthusiasts who may have found one of the buttons and would like to learn more about them.

Who would think that something so small could tell such big stories?

By: Catherine Pincott-Allen
Imprint: Lost Voices Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 203mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 408g
ISBN: 9781738556854
ISBN 10: 1738556859
Pages: 148
Publication Date: 16 December 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

As an avid family historian, I have extensively researched the branches of my own family tree. Not knowing our distant ancestors personally, yet discovering snippets of information about their lives in records, newspapers and dusty archives, has inspired my fictional writing. I live in Nottinghamshire with my husband, Richard, and we are the founding members of The Field Detectives, a group of history enthusiasts dedicated to investigating local landscapes and historical events. I love nothing more than delving into the past to uncover the truth about long-forgotten people and events and sharing that learning through my non-fiction writing. Under the name Emmaline Severn, I also write historical fiction and non-fiction books.