The history of midwifery, the history of Poplar, and how the two came together in the mission that was the real life Nonantus House. Why Jennifer Worth had to change the name of the real mission and the real life characters. How accurate is the memoir of the old East End? Who was Chummy? What parts of the Poplar of the 1950's are still there (shockingly quite a bit is the answer).
Views: 1203 | Enquiries: 21I am a historian, novelist, public speaker and walks guide. I guide 50 different walks in London and do 25 different talks, on history subjects. My particular expertise is 19th and early 20th century women's history such as the Suffragettes, Women in the Great War, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: First Woman Doctor. Other talks include The Real Downton Abbey: What It Wad Really Like To Be In Service, The Titanic: What Happened After The Ship Sank, The Real Mr Selfridge, Call the Midwife, Young Dickens, Young Chaplin, Famous Murders 1811-1911, the Golden Age of Travel 1836-1936, the Krays and the 1908 London Olympics. And I have a new talk, The Greenham Common Women's Protest, I am available to do talks throughout Hampshire, Surrey, Berkshire, Bucks & London, I can also do talks in Sussex, West Kent and Wiltshire but only in the daytime due to the extra mileage involved. At the talks I sell my three novels, Whitechapel Autumn of Error (set in Whitechapel at the time of Jack the Ripper), Suffragette Autumn Women's Spring (set on the Titanic and then in Canada and London 1912/14) & A Plague On Both Your Houses (set during the flu pandemic in both London & Berlin in 1918/19).
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