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Love City Lit would be worth travelling up from Brighton!
How nice of you to say so – in the past people have commuted a considerable distance to get to it (including Brighton)!
Sounds great, but time and money mean I can’t do something like that right now. I’m working on a similar project, but not about my family – I’m researching some of the families from the local workhouse and looking for how to make it interesting and accessible more generally.
What a fascinating project. I learned a lot from workhouse record when working on a dissertation on the Irish and Italian communities in 19c London. For the first time I appreciated the extent of the workhouse’s revolving door. It was a place of refuge when in greatest need, but often people managed to get out within a matter of months, sometimes weeks. Love to hear about your discoveries!