Family Skeletons: Exploring the Lives of Our Disreputable Ancestors by Simon Fowler

Family Skeletons: Exploring the Lives of Our Disreputable Ancestors

Simon Fowler

246 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction biography informative reflective medium-paced
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Did you know that until 1823 suicides were buried at crossroads to prevent them returning to haunt the living? Or that until the Contagious Diseases Act was repealed in 1886, women in naval ports who were suspected of prostitution could be medical...

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