Tag: family life

• Best-selling author of all time!

  Any guesses as to who is the most read author in the world? Well, according to a recent Wikipaedia article, it is Agatha Christie – who has estimated sales of between two and four billion!  Even beating the bard, William Shakespeare! Hercule Poirot appeared in 33 of her published ‘whodunits’ – which numbered 85 in…

  Isabella Muir

  September 2, 2018

  Agatha Christie, Janie Juke, mysteries, Sussex, writing

  cozy mysteries, family life, fiction, Italy, RAF, Second World War, social history, suspense, swinging sixties

• Not lost, but abandoned

  

  It was 1986 when Nottinghamshire social worker, Margaret Humphreys, was first contacted by a former child migrant in Australia.  She was asked if she could help track down his family in the UK.  That was just the start of a long journey for Margaret, and for the many individuals and families she has helped since…

  Isabella Muir

  September 2, 2018

  Child Migrants Trust, writing

  cultural history, family life, fiction, Italy, reading, research, Second World War, social history, Sussex

• The Forgotten Children

  

  I will let the words of the Child Migrants Trust tell this story… ‘Britain is the only country in the world with a sustained history of child migration. Only Britain has used child migration as a key part of its child care strategy over four centuries rather than as a last resort during times of…

  Isabella Muir

  September 1, 2018

  Child Migrants Trust, research, writing

  cultural history, family life, fiction, Italy, social history