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Between Vice and Virtue: The Earl of Rochester’s Private World
What family letters and curative recipes reveal about the man behind the libertine
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Walking London Backwards: Mapping Crime, Coffee Shops, and Imagination
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Entering the Workhouse
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Life in the Workhouse
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Family Footsteps: How a Forgotten Trunk Unlocked Generations of Hidden Stories
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The Stalking Horse and the Missing Princes
What if the greatest mystery in English history was the perfect decoy?
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Family Footsteps: How a Forgotten Trunk Unlocked Generations of Hidden Stories
Discovering pictures, letters, and lost family members
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Family Footsteps: Where Past and Present Meet
From candlelit halls to fields of campfires, my history came alive at Bolton Castle
Dec 27, 2025
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Family Footsteps: The Power of Genealogy and Storytelling
Walking London with my ancestors—from the Tower’s shadow to Westminster’s tombs
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Life in the Workhouse
Julia and Joseph, Children of the Poor Law
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The Man Who Sat Beside Her | A Short Story
She knows his name from the past. She never expected he’d upend her future—or that a single White House dinner would reshape the world.
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Entering the Workhouse
The first step in discovering my grandmother's past
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Elizabeth St.John | Writing Time
Novel writer. Memory curator. Story sleuth. #HistoricalFiction #TheLydiardArchives More stuff on my website: www.elizabethjstjohn.com and www.TheLydiardArchives.co.uk
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