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Site title: Voyager of History – This blog is a selection of interesting things I've come across during my history research. I have a wide interest in history ranging from Wars of the Roses, country houses, Stuarts, Georgians, Louis XIV, Napoleon and criminals. So expect to see a bit of everything on here, with a focus on little known stories.

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Quanah Parker and Teddy Roosevelt

My favourite American president is Theodore ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt. Not only because as legend has it, he is the reason we have teddy bears, but because I feel he was a genuine man who wanted the best for his people but also was a man of action to get things done. Like most people my age, I also fell in love with Robin Williams portrayal of him in the Night at the Museum ...

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Elgar’s Nimrod and Remembrance Services: a Guest Post by Neil Bettridge

For this guest post, I am delighted to welcome my friend and colleague, Neil Bettridge. Neil was Project Archivist at the Derbyshire Record Office. I have welcomed Neil before on the blog. He has written a two-part series on the life of Eric Liddell, of Chariots of Fire fame. You can read those href="https://voyagerofhistory.wordpress.com/2024/07/13/eric-liddell-...

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Mary Prince: The First Female Black Slave Biography

In recent years, there has been an increased interest in slave autobiographies, particularly with men such as Olaudah Equiano’s autobiography published in 1789, or the later Frederick Douglass writing about life under American slavery, who’s narrative was published in 1845. However, Mary Prince, the first woman to have her slavery story published, entitled The History of ...

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Book Review of The Little Penguin Bookshop and A New Chapter at the Little Penguin Bookshop by Joanna Toye

After a recent visit to a few Battle of Britain themed museums, I came across The Little Penguin Bookshop by Joanna Toye in a local charity shop. The blurb suggested that the twin brother of the main character, Carrie, was a World War Two pilot, on top of Carrie setting up a small Penguin bookshop on the platform of her town’s train station caught me instantly. I was...

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Blog Seventh Anniversary

The 14th of September marked the seventh anniversary of the blog, so I want to take the opportunity to thank each and every person who has read, followed, shared and enjoyed the content I’ve been producing over that time. It really means a lot to me that my blog’s readership has grown so much in that time and that people genuinely seem to love what I write about. Not long ago...

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