Stories From the Archives
The Lara and Furtado Families
Pearl Foster
Paperback
The ordinary, the bizarre, the chancers, the takers and the history makers. These are the real-life stories of the Lara and Furtado families of Georgian England.
- ISBN 9781781329979
- Published Sep 2020
- Paperback
216x140mm (426 pages)
£14.99
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The ordinary, the bizarre, the chancers, the takers and the history makers.These are the real-life stories of the Lara and Furtado families of Georgian England.
Immerse yourself in their everyday lives and discover an elopement that captured the imagination of a nation, a murder most foul, a miserly gambler, and a father and son sent to prison at the instigation of their wives.
They brushed shoulders with the Disraelis, the Adams brothers and the Byrons, leading lives sometimes heart-warming and always fascinating.
A gem of a book for family historians.
Pearl Foster was born in London and moved to Bristol for teacher-training and to complete a degree in Economics and Sociology. Her career in education was followed by ten years as a registrar of births, marriages and deaths. She has pursued a lifelong interest in family history research – in particular a branch of the Lara and Furtado families who escaped the barbarities of the Portuguese inquisition and fled to England.
Pearl is married, has two children, is happily retired and will be pleased to hear from anyone tracing similar lines.
The author can be contacted at lara.furtado@yahoo.com
"History does not happen in a vacuum. It happens as real people interact with the circumstances of their lives. No dry textbook is this. No flowery novel either. Through years of arduous and painstaking research, with insight and great humanity, Pearl Foster recreates the lives and drama surrounding a wealthy family as they navigate the corridors of power in Whitehall and Georgian London."
Paul, US, September 2020
You can also find an article about Pear Foster's book,
Stories From the Archives, published in her local Yate and Sodbury paper,
The Gazette.
Pearl's article for the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain has just been published in the December 2020 edition of Shemot.
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