Love this kind of insight.

Lacking agency is a miss representation of 'post-structuralism'. The opposite is the case, we need to learn to attend to the discourses from which we speak.

I'm really not sure that men's stories being recorded as a result of male homosexuality being illegal in the UK, but female homosexuality not, means that those men were "privileged.". Absolutely appalling choice of words.

Really riveting.

Loved hearing about some Ashkenazi traditions.

YES! Having the same feeling wanting to trace Emma Jolly’s Black Country family 🤣🤣🤣

I really enjoyed this episode. My mother was a conductress on the buses in London during the blitz. Sadly, she didn't write down her experiences before she died, but she did share a few stories when I was growing up. Born in 1920, she grew up in Durham, the daughter of a coal miner, and came to London sometime before 1940. She lived in Tunbridge Wells, Kent with her sister's family and worked as a chambermaid in a large London hotel, then as a clerk at a Woolworth store as well as on the buses. I remember her saying that at night the bus headlights had shutters pointing downward so the planes above couldn't see them. She recounted a time when a bomb had fallen on a theatre shortly before the bus arrived on the scene, and the horror of seeing the damage and body parts and limbs in the street. She also spoke of sheltering in the underground, and the chilling sound of the air raid sirens. She told me that her experience during this time were why her "nerves" were so bad. . In spite of the horrors of wartime, my mother entered and won a beauty contest, winning the title of MIss Tunbridge Wells. I believe she may have served on the women's auxiliary or voluntary service as she had a pin. She became involved with a Canadian soldier at this time, became pregnant, and gave birth to a lovely baby girl in 1943. It turned out that the father of the child had a wife back in Canada, so as a single mother, she returned to Durham, where she met my father who was an aero engineer in the Canadian Air Force. They married in 1945 and moved to Canada the following year.

A brilliant and sincere interview with much heart and intuitive introspection. Cheers ☺ and thank you!

enjoyed watching the "Black Country Ancestors", have no Black Country ancestors that I have found so far ! But I am related to Emma, Hertfordshire family.

Really enjoyed this…. I’m an immunisation nurse so it’s really up my street

This is in America, buried alive or possibly kzbin.info/www/bejne/raCzmXufd9itlZY

Thank you for another enjoyable and interesting episode. Sylvia is so engaging to listen to

This was so interesting - thank you both. Sparked me on to have another look at a different branch of the family... see you later...

My father’s father’s family was from Slonim Poland which became Belarus in the Grodno area after WW2 .

Heartbreaking so few of the 116 survived.

Oh. And the family trade was that of 'cabinet maker' before becoming undertakers. Not wholly surprising but interesting to hear it confirmed as a broader trend here.

My great grandfather was the head of the British Undertakers' Association in the early 1900s. I've also been told by family that he embalmed the opera singer Adelina Patti. Very interested to hear more about this.

Just discovering this now. Very interesting, especially since I saw that one of my ancestors in rural Wales in 1850s was blind - hard to imagine what that must have been like. Subbed and thanks 👍

Thank you, that was really interesting and thank you David for the offering your book free!

I thought that the journals went right up to 11 days before her death? Helena Whitbread and Jill Liddington, two historians who have published extracts from her diaries have said this?

This sounds amazing, a really brilliant idea to create a community around writing and social/family history. I hope to join one day when I have the money to. That's the downside of being a younger genealogist, haha! ❤️

Can't wait to watch more of your Genealogy Stories!

This was highly interesting and entertaining. This is my first time listening after seeing you on Twitter and I thoroughly enjoyed it. :)

What a great episode. I am so jealous of Caitlin's ability to rattle off all those names, dates and relationship details off the top of her head! The range of emotions this talk took us through - from deaths in the holocaust to spilt milk on the bridge, just shows how varied our family histories can be.

So interesting.

A great interview and a wonderful opener to what promises to be a great series. Thanks Natalie.

Great interview! Thanks for sharing these entertaining stories and valuable insights.

Fantastically done Natalie!

Really interesting tree there!!

I really enjoyed this interview Natalie, Nick has some interesting ancestors! Very topical questions re the preservation of research and also documenting our own experiences of the pandemic. Looking forward to future episodes!