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Bristol Women – Helen Blackburn, 1842-1903

Suffragettes, Women
01 December 2025

09 January 2026

It may seem strange to start with an obituary, but this is the way I first came across Helen, when I was filling in the background to our Irish holiday, April 2025. For Helen’s...

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DP LIndegaard

I have been researching the social history of the West Country for 50+ years. During this time I have collated information on a wide range of people living and working in the West Country including miners, ethnic minorities, petty criminals, sailors, tommies, benefactors, brassmakers and many more. The thing that I find amazing is that ordinary people always lived extraordinary lives. I hope you like my blog that brings together my lifetime of research.

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Death may our souls divide From these abodes of day But love shall keep us near his side Through all the gloomy way.

The epitaph on the gravestone of James Pillinger - the sight of which started me of on my journey of discovery 49 years ago!

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A man (or woman) is not dead while his name is still spoken.

Terry Pratchett

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I have been doing social history research on the working class in Bristol and the West Country for over 45 years. My new website collates my life's work.