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An ancestral trail through two English counties inhabited by everyday, church-going country folk. Great-grandmother Mary Brewer Andrew was to grow up in a sheltered Cornish village founded by a Welsh saint, but fate found her transported across the country to Suffolk, where she was to find the man of her dreams and start an idyllic family. Life was good and prosperous as a butcher's wife, the only real tragedy being in WWII with the loss of her youngest child. Yet her own childhood and ancestry tell a tale of death and hardship. Pealing back the pages of the lives of her immediate parents'…mehr

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An ancestral trail through two English counties inhabited by everyday, church-going country folk. Great-grandmother Mary Brewer Andrew was to grow up in a sheltered Cornish village founded by a Welsh saint, but fate found her transported across the country to Suffolk, where she was to find the man of her dreams and start an idyllic family. Life was good and prosperous as a butcher's wife, the only real tragedy being in WWII with the loss of her youngest child. Yet her own childhood and ancestry tell a tale of death and hardship. Pealing back the pages of the lives of her immediate parents' family, who were agricultural labourers, is a story unto itself. Some ancestors did run successful businesses though. They were millers; but even millers can fall foul of the law, which has necessitated a detailed look into the life inside the notorious Bodmin jail. Chilling though its stories are, the place is now a museum, a skylight looking down into how things should not have been, but how history & karma affect us all.
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This, the third and most involved work by the author on the growing research into Stone Age portable rock art, is a must read for all interested parties. Beginning with handaxes crafted by the earliest inhabitants of the British Isles, one million years ago, it details that they carved, pecked and knapped these artefacts as art. Handaxes of all types, shapes and forms were not so much meant for use as weapons, but more as tools and ceremonial objects, having dual ritualistic and practical functions. Passed down as ancestral heirlooms, they became enthused with 'mana' and were often placed as offerings in streams, or at tomb and grave sites, or by sacred groves. Until now, the designs seen of these artefacts have not generally been recognised as art. The main theme of this work therefore is to introduce these artforms in detail to the world of archaeology and the public alike. Intangible, ritualistic meanings they once held, yet tangible stone art they remain, preserved as monuments to the skill and cognitive abilities of our most distant ancestors.