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Showing posts with label Victorian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Victorian. Show all posts
Monday, 26 October 2015

Slice of cake, anyone?

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Just for you, suggested by a comment from reader Rose, here I am reading the moment from chapter 5 of "Goatsucker Harvest" when...
Monday, 19 October 2015

Goatsucker Harvest: Yorkshire author Joyce Barrass reads from her historical heartstopper

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Welcome to your must read moment! Here I'm reading from Chapter 4 of my Yorkshire historical heartstopper "Goatsucker Harvest....
Wednesday, 7 October 2015

FREE Kindle download of "GOATSUCKER HARVEST" October 8th-11th

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FREE KINDLE EBOOK DOWNLOAD of my first novel "GOATSUCKER HARVEST "!  Get it on your Kindle FOR FREE or tell the lucky bookwor...
Sunday, 19 April 2015

Goatsucker Harvest: A "Receipt" for Victorian Intrigue

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A few readers were a bit puzzled by Thirza's use of the word  "receipt" instead of "recipe" in "Goatsucker Ha...
Sunday, 4 January 2015

Goatsucker Harvest: Sir William Cubitt & Doncaster Railway Plant Works

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Sir William Cubitt (1785 - 1861) Civil Engineer Most of the characters in "Goatsucker Harvest" are inspired by the author'...
Tuesday, 23 December 2014

Goatsucker Harvest - launched and afloat!

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****UPDATE**** Downloadable now at a modest £2.29 or even £0.00 if you're signed up for Kindle Unlimited  Goatsucker Harvest on Am...
Tuesday, 3 January 2012

This Melancholy Act: Suicide and Secrecy in Victorian Yorkshire Part 2

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G. F. Watts - Found Drowned - Oil on Canvas ca 1848-50 I wrote last September here about the ripple effects through our family histor...
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Tuesday, 27 September 2011

Walking into the Silence: Suicide and Secrecy in Victorian Yorkshire Part 1

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This image from the 1851 census is a snapshot frozen in time. It shows the occupants of a farm next to the Manor House in the ...
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Thursday, 13 May 2010

What I don't know about wet collodion and Victorian post-mortem photography

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I'm just working on a short story about an itinerant photographer who travels with his tripod and cumbersome portable dark room from vil...