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Diagonal Ties: A family history in Wales and the North East of England
Diagonal Ties: A family history in Wales and the North East of England
Diagonal Ties: A family history in Wales and the North East of England
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Diagonal Ties is a fascinating account of one family’s connections throughout the generations with both the North East of England and the South of Wales.
Susan Lewis relates the tale of her search for ancestors with humour, an eye for detail and an intriguing insight into life during the times in which they lived.
Starting with rural Welsh life in the 1700s, the story moves through the heart of the industrial revolution and on into the foundries of the North-East. Susan considers with poignancy and compassion how events including a war in South Africa, a riot in Llanelli, a general strike, and two world wars, affected the lives and fortunes of those concerned.
The story spans the reigns of nine kings and queens as one person from each generation makes that diagonal journey that will determine whether he or she will live as a Welsh person or a North Easterner.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateApr 30, 2013
ISBN9781908299475
Diagonal Ties: A family history in Wales and the North East of England
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Susan Lewis CBE

Susan Lewis CBE was born in County Durham and went to school in Billingham, Llanelli (briefly), and Hartlepool. She graduated from the University of Newcastle in the late 1960s. From there she went on to study education at the University of Sheffield. Susan stayed in Yorkshire for the next 16 years, starting out as a science teacher and ending up in charge of a secondary school. In the mid-1980s, she turned gamekeeper by becoming a school inspector in Wales. Susan later became the first woman to be appointed as Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education and Training in Wales. She was awarded the CBE for services to education in 2008. Susan currently lives in Cardiff. Since retiring, she has pursued her passion for growing plants to eat and look at. She enjoys cooking, sewing, painting and drawing. She has also worked out family trees for herself and friends and written a couple of books which reveal her roots in the North East and Wales. Her first book, Home on the range: growing up on Teesside in the 50s and 60s, was published in 2011. Diagonal Ties: a family history in Wales and the North East of England is her second book.

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