The family snap that heralded better times ahead
s family historians, we spend much time researching how our ancestors fared during events of great moment, some dire and terrifying. From our relatively safe and stable late 20th and early 21st century perspectives, we look back and wonder how on earth they coped through devastating wars, harsh poverty and endemic and pandemic disease. We sympathise, try to empathise and almost comprehend how they must have felt about young lives cut short and longer lives ending in isolation
