There is no Cosmetic for Beauty Like Happiness

Essentially I am a massive history geek. Once I get my teeth in to a subject I read everything and anything I can get my hands on about the subject. In the past my small obsessions have been on topics such as the Waitangi tribunal (a tribunal set up to consider the rights of the Maoris in new zealand following a treaty in the 1800s that left things more than murky) the abdication crisis which has become very fashionable recently what with the kings speech and  madonnas new  film w and e, the history of local asylums and the guards regiments who used to be based in Caterham, where my museum was last year.

My current obsessions are the history of fundamentalist polygamous sects in America following my interest into the Sister Wives programme and as of last week a little known suffragette I m researching for work.

 Friday found me   in the National Archives in Kew and the Womens Library  in Aldgate both fascinating places in their own rights and ones I had never visited before. During my degree nd my masters I used the British newspaper library at Colindale, senate house library which is the main uni of London library and the British library itself. I am sad I never ventured to Kew before but even sadder I  never discovered the womens library. It consists of a selection of books on subjects related to women from the suffragettes to mother and baby homes and womens rights. Along with an archive put together from numerous private collections.

 There is nothing better than the feeling of finding a personal letter or piece of information about someone or something you are researching that hasn't been uncovered for years.

I realise this probably makes me a bit boring but i care not...anyone else willing to share their obsessions
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Even if they aren't like mine....,