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Helen Parker-Drabble

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Author of 'A Victorian's Inheritance'. Coming soon: 'Yet' A Story of Triumph Over Childhood Separation, Trauma, and Disability. English Victorian life. Victorian recipes. Bovine Tuberculosis #FamilyHistory #SocialHistory #Psychology #histsci #histmed

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Helen Parker-Drabble @helenpdrabble.bsky.social · 17h

I loved putting a family photo together using photobox. Family can collaborate online. Great way to find the elusive names...

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Helen Parker-Drabble @helenpdrabble.bsky.social · 17h

Some, I've written about my granfather in 'A Victorian's Inheritance', but there's more about his father's role in the village in a book written by the Duke who employed him. Priceless!

Helen Parker-Drabble @helenpdrabble.bsky.social · 17h

Thanks. I hadn't thought to ask a FB group, doh! I did wonder if it was the first house to be buily on the street. Mmm minutes might be worth looking at when I'm next in Sheffield. Thank you 💐

Helen Parker-Drabble @helenpdrabble.bsky.social · 17h

It's the water tower in the Tank Yard in the Duke of Bedford's village of Thorney outside Peterborough. It was a state of the art water and sewage management system. My great-grandfather managed it and other things so had the cottage

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Helen Parker-Drabble @helenpdrabble.bsky.social · 17h

Yes, it was quite surreal going into what would have been his bedroom. Here he is with his sisters in 1886. His mother is standing outside the door of their cottage

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Helen Parker-Drabble @helenpdrabble.bsky.social · 17h

Ooh ta, ever so 💐

Helen Parker-Drabble @helenpdrabble.bsky.social · 17h

I managed to get this one of new found cousins outside my maternal grandfather's cottage-now a village museum!

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Helen Parker-Drabble @helenpdrabble.bsky.social · 17h

Great idea 😊

Helen Parker-Drabble @helenpdrabble.bsky.social · 17h

What a special connection. People's eyes glaze over in my family!

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Helen Parker-Drabble @helenpdrabble.bsky.social · 17h

Look after yourself 💐

Helen Parker-Drabble @helenpdrabble.bsky.social · 17h

Heartbreaking 💔

Helen Parker-Drabble @helenpdrabble.bsky.social · 17h

Yes, and making lots of new memories ♥️

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Helen Parker-Drabble @helenpdrabble.bsky.social · 17h

Happy to share it if you're interested

Helen Parker-Drabble @helenpdrabble.bsky.social · 17h

Such an important thing to do to remember our fallen and those who survived but were traumatised RIP

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Helen Parker-Drabble @helenpdrabble.bsky.social · 17h

That's brilliant and how wonderful to a fellow enthusiast in your family ♥️

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Helen Parker-Drabble @helenpdrabble.bsky.social · 17h

#GenHour Celebrating getting over a nasty virus and receiving a review on Amazon from someone I don't know! Trying to fit in more Sheffield based research for a relative who started her personal recipe book in 1860 😊

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Helen Parker-Drabble @helenpdrabble.bsky.social · 17h

Wow that's fantastic. My family is shrinking so far it feels like it will disappear soon... Do they feel like family?

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Helen Parker-Drabble @helenpdrabble.bsky.social · 17h

#GenHour I've got a relative at what I believe is a house not a st, Claremont Terrace, Sheffield, 1841. I've been through trade directories, newspapers & maps. Any thoughts where else I could look, please? On Claremont Place?I'd like some evidence. No other house named on the census record near it.

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Marian Burk Wood @climbingfamilytree.bsky.social · 20h

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Paul Chiddicks @chiddickstree.bsky.social · 5d

Sometimes we discover a story that’s so remarkable that we feel compelled to make sure that the story is told The Boy Behind The Picture #Titanic #Genealogy #WW1 #History #historyinthemaking #historyfacts #FamilyHistory #Genhour

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The Boy Behind The Picture

Sometimes we discover a story that’s so remarkable that even though it’s not a member of your own family, we feel compelled to make sure that the story is told. The photograph of the yo…

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Helen Parker-Drabble @helenpdrabble.bsky.social · 2d

Discover more about intergenerational trauma and how your family might have been affected in the November issue of Who Do You Think You Are?

You will see the article, with me being quoted, on pages 19, 20 and 21!

#genealogy #familyhistory #trauma #traumahealing #GenHour #ancestryhour

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Helen Parker-Drabble @helenpdrabble.bsky.social · 3d

6 July 1940: Harry Drabble, aged 6, is readmitted to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital as pain from his damaged femur becomes unbearable. But the Sheffield Blitz is coming.
📖 'Yet' ebook now on sale Amazon: geni.us/ikrcxwE or tinyurl.com/bdz68ay3

#SocialHistory #DisabilityHistory #SheffieldHistory

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Helen Parker-Drabble @helenpdrabble.bsky.social · 3d

The eBook of ‘Yet’ is out today.

It's got a 5* review from someone I don't know😀

An essential read for social historians of the 20th century

It’s a brilliant book! The author has a wonderful style of factual writing with deep emotion – it’s wonderful.

🙏 #Memoir #Genealogy #Disability #Medical

Cover for ‘Yet’: A Story of Triumph over Childhood Separation, Trauma, and Disability showing children being treated for bovine TB
“No one believed me. ‘Children couldn’t have been treated like that.’ But we were.” Harry Drabble
A portrait memoir by his daughter Helen Parker-Drabble. www.helenparkerdrabble.com

Helen Parker-Drabble @helenpdrabble.bsky.social · 6d

Discover a Story of resilience, reflection, and triumph.

Born in 1934, Harry’s childhood was marked by separation, trauma & a battle with disability caused by tuberculosis. Despite the odds, he turned “I can’t” into “I can.”

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#FamilyHistory #MedicalHistory #Memoir

Yet: A Story of Triumph over Childhood Separation, Trauma, and Disability (Who Do I Think You Were? Book 2)

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Helen Parker-Drabble @helenpdrabble.bsky.social · 7d

USA! 3-23 Oct

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