Sue Wilkes

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

Sunday, 12 June 2022

The 'Palace of Puffs'

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My latest feature for Discover Your Ancestors magazine ( digital edition, June ) is on the 1862 International Exhibition .  The landmark 185...
Friday, 4 March 2022

NFReads Interview

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Do pop over to the NFReads website where you can read an interview with me (and lots of other authors!). Obviously I would have loved to ha...
Tuesday, 15 February 2022

Robert Burns' Mauchline

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Burns House Museum  Scotland's national bard, Robert Burns, lived in Mauchline with his long-time sweetheart Jean Armour from the spring...
Sunday, 19 December 2021

December Fashions for 1798

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Lady's Monthly Museum , 1798.  Paying morning visits was an important part of fashionable life - and it was important that a lady was pr...
Saturday, 14 August 2021

Sir Walter Scott

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Sir Walter Scott, 1822. Tomorrow marks 250 years since the birth of Sir Walter Scott , novelist and contemporary of Jane Austen. Young '...
Thursday, 20 May 2021

A Great Honour!

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I'm very pleased and honoured to say that I've just been elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society ! I'd particularly lik...

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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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