a look back at my family,
to understand how I came to be
in this place
Lost at Sea
156 years ago, nineteen-year-old Frederick Robinson from Liverpool, was lost at sea when HMS Captain capsized and sank off the Spanish coast. Through the letters he wrote to his family…
Keep readingMajor-General Millar
From his early years as the son of a Scottish merchant, John Millar rose from cadet to Major General of the East India Company. This is a retelling of his…
Keep readingFrom the Trenches
The lines of this poem were penned by a first-time poet in a dugout “Somewhere in France” in 1917. Perhaps it was written as a pledge to lost friends that…
Keep readingBanished Beyond Seas
Banished beyond the seas, as a convict to Van Diemen’s Land, Jane Perry survived through years of poverty, cruelty and trauma to form a family and seek a better future…
Keep readingThe Robinsons of Liverpool
This post follows the male lineage of the Robinsons of Liverpool, from whom I inherited my surname.
Between 1750 and 1914, Liverpool was at the centre of many historical events…
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