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Research topics

All writers research differently. I plan my novels to be in the settings and explore the topics that already pique my curiosity because the research for them can take up to a year. Which is an awfully long time if it was to be spent on something I have no interest in. Of course my books also require I check up on the sort of things that would normally have me yawning or skimming the details to get it over with, but that’s part of the job. Here are some pieces about my favourite topics to research, and the ones that nearly drove me around the bend.

1918 programme for variety show for St Dunstan's front cover

Variety theatre: 1918 show in aid of St Dunstan’s

Golders Green Hippodrome variety programme 1914 page 1

Variety Theatre: Golders Green Hippodrome 1914

Chiswick Empire playbill 1927.

Variety theatre: Chiswick Empire playbill 1927

Shepherds Bush Empire Variety Theatre playbill 1927

Variety theatre: Shepherds Bush Empire playbill 1927

Ardwick Green Empire Variety Theatre playbill 1927.

Variety theatre: Ardwick Green Empire playbill 1927

Check day dress. Stylish armchair. Fashion 1920's style.

Fashion 1920’s style

Ticket for WWI Centenary Commemoration in Harrogate Library 10/11/2018

WWI centenary commemorations

Theatre card for Tivoli 1933. BK Duncan

Music halls and all things theatrical, darling

Footballer Bob Crompton. 1913

The sporting life

Moochers & mug-fakers

Stylised 20's girl walking hound. Pastel by Ruth Wade. Representing the Isle of Dogs

The Isle of Dogs

Boats in Thames at Limehouse Reach

Undercurrents of Found Drowned

Blue racing car on orange. Pastel by Ruth Wade

Slang and cant decoded

Blue racing car on brown. Pastel by Ruth Wade

Slang and cant: the words and the music

Red and navy saloon cars on green. Pastel by Ruth Wade

Libraries: Poplar’s palaces of learning

Vintage medical field kit. Wellcome foundation.

Murder and medics

Peach oak tree. Pastel by Ruth Wade representing East End communities. BK Duncan

East End communities

Yellow sailing boasts on blue. Pastel by Ruth Wade

London docklands

Oak tree on brown. Pastel by Ruth Wade

Poplar and Limehouse

Oscar Kirk's 1919 diary

An East End voice

Still from Wellcome film on shell-shock treatment in WW1

Shell-shock

Tommy gun. Research that messes with your head. By Ruth Wade

To boldly go

Hippodrome Poplar. As featured in Foul Trade by BK Duncan

Clear the stage, dim the lights.

Matadors and bullfighting. Current research for Ruth Wade.

Mind the Gap

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