Sue Wilkes

I'm an author specialising in family history, social history, industrial history and literary biography. Real stories; real people; real lives.

Thursday, 22 March 2018

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Bath Abbey My latest feature for the 2018 Discover Your Ancestors bookazine (order here ) is on Mary Shelley and Frankenstein . This ...

Tuesday, 23 January 2018

Radio Chat

Crown Hotel, Nantwich. I was thrilled to be asked to appear on Redshift Community Radio last week (it's based in the Nantwich area...

Wednesday, 10 January 2018

Full Steam Ahead! Made in Manchester

Ancoats mills at dinnertime. The earliest factories were water-powered, so they were built by fast-flowing streams. The advent of steam ...

Monday, 8 January 2018

William Cowper's House

Hares sculpture, Cowper Museum garden. Happy New Year to all my readers! I hope you had a good Christmas. If you pop over to my Jane...

Friday, 15 December 2017

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

I'd like to wish all my readers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! I'll be back in 2018 with more blog posts about social his...

Friday, 1 December 2017

A Georgian Heroine: Eleanor Coade

Coade Stone Factory, Narrow Wall, Lambeth, anonymous, 1790s. Today I'd like to welcome back fellow Pen & Sword authors Joanne ...

Sunday, 8 October 2017

Manchester's Coaching Days

Pickford's Royal Fly-van. Before the mid-eighteenth century, Manchester merchants who wished to move goods like textiles faced cons...

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About Me

Sue Wilkes: Cheshire, United Kingdom; I'm the author of several social history books and family history guides. My new book, Young Workers of the Industrial Age, for Pen and Sword, is out now. I'm a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. I write for adults and children. I like toast, crisp clear autumn mornings, and haunting secondhand bookshops. Je suis Européenne.

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