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Re-post: Who was Elizabeth Goever?
What can we discover about a woman from only her 17th Century trade token?
Aug 22 • 
Amy Freeborn
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Exploring the lives of women through the instructions they left for their deaths
Wills can provide a tangible sense of the personalities of, the people and possession that were important to, ordinary people from the past.
Jun 13 • 
Amy Freeborn
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Who was Elizabeth Goever?
What can we discover about a woman from only her 17th Century trade token?
Feb 23, 2024 • 
Amy Freeborn
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A social history of 1920s London (part 4 of 4)
A window onto life for a young woman living in the capital 100 years ago, as described in her diary.
Jan 12, 2024 • 
Amy Freeborn
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A social history of 1920s London (part 3)
A window onto life for a young woman living in the capital 100 years ago, as described in her diary.
Nov 3, 2023 • 
Amy Freeborn
A social history of 1920s London (part 2)
An intermittent series told through the 1923 diary of 17-year-old Lily*, who lived in the north of the capital and worked at her father’s shop in the…
May 5, 2023 • 
Amy Freeborn
A social history of 1920s London (part 1)
A window onto life for a young woman living in the capital 100 years ago, as described in her diary.
Mar 24, 2023 • 
Amy Freeborn
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