Monthly Archives: April 2023

Wrexham Workhouse

Having just read Anthony Trollope’s The Warden, with its depiction of a Victorian church almshouse, and recently discovering that one of my own ancestors, Mary Elizabeth Raley, was an assistant matron at Wakefield Workhouse in the nineteenth century, I felt … Continue reading

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The Flow: Rivers, Water and Wildness by Amy-Jane Beer

Book Review – April 2023 We come from water, and water runs through us. It carries our chemistry and our stories. It shows us more than itself: all the colours and none. We are mostly water for all of our … Continue reading

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