@helenpdrabble.bsky.social
Author & ex-counsellor exploring family history through a psychological lens. Sharing stories of the Victorian era, Sheffield & memoirs of hidden resilience. helenparkerdrabble.com. 'A Victorian's Inheritance' ‘Yet’ https://tinyurl.com/3duyxdcu
All set up & ready to go at Sheffield's Victorian Christmas Market today & tomorrow at the iconic Kelham Island Museum. There's over 80 stalls! I remember talking to dad about exhibits here a few years ago. Off to get into Victorian costume! #Sheffield #FamilyHistory #Psychology #GenHour #Ancestry
06.12.2025 07:27 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Understanding requires context.
The video shows Harry's institutional experience. Your family might show different contexts - war, poverty, displacement - but similar adaptations.
Patterns make sense once you see origins.
helenparkerdrabble.com
#FamilyHistory #Psychology
The video presentation of 'Yet' continues to resonate. If you haven't watched, highly recommend.
“No one believed me. ‘Children couldn’t have been treated like that.’ But we were.”
—Harry Drabble
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#FamilyHistory #Psychology #MedicalHistory #Trauma #Attachment #TB
Understanding requires context. The video youtu.be/G2TGkACKgCA shows Harry's experience of childhood long-stay hospitalisation. Your family might show different contexts, but similar adaptations.
Patterns make sense once you see origins.
#FamilyHistory #Psychology #DisabilityHistoryMonth #TB
Understanding requires context. The video youtu.be/G2TGkACKgCA shows Harry's experience of childhool long-stay hospitalisation. Your family might show different contexts - war, poverty, displacement - but similar adaptations.
Patterns make sense once you see origins.
#FamilyHistory #Psychology
After understanding comes choice.
You're not betraying ancestors by choosing different patterns. You're honouring their survival while recognising you face different circumstances.
They did what they had to. You get to do what you choose.
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#Healing #Choice #FamilyPatterns
People are connecting Harry's experience to their own families, understanding patterns they'd noticed but couldn't explain.
This is the power of oral history. Thank you for watching.
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#OralHistory #FamilyHistory #MedicalHistory #Psychology #Pasteurization
#GenHour- Join us for Tracing Postal Workers on 4 Dec at 2pm with Susannah Coster (Royal Mail Archive): research ancestors who worked for the British postal service; learn about records, remote access & postal history.
Attend in person at SoG or watch online. Book:
Watch the 'Yet' video if you're interested in how institutional experiences shaped families.
Harry's story illuminates patterns many families carry but don't understand.
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#Video #FamilyHistory #Attachment #Psychology
The video of 'Yet' documents something rarely recorded: a first-person account of childhood institutionalisation in 1930s-50s Britain.
Harry's voice matters. These children's stories matter.
Watch: youtu.be/G2TGkACKgCA
#OralHistory #DisabilityHistory #Video #DisabilityHistoryMonth #MedicalHistory
"Mum was crying. I didn't understand why she couldn't come with me."
He was 2. It would be 7 weeks, and three hospital wards before he saw her again.
He didn't go home for years.
Full story: youtu.be/G2TGkACKgCA
#DisabilityHistoryMonth #Memoir #Disability #Genealogy #TB #Unpasteurization
I highly recommend people watch @helenpdrabble.bsky.social's video about her new book "Yet", a story about her father's resilience following a diagnosis of bovine tuberculosis as a child.
25.11.2025 12:51 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Thank you so much for your interest and encouragement. it means a lot.
26.11.2025 06:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
📖 Discover a Forgotten Chapter of History
'Yet' my father’s incredible story of resilience in the face of childhood trauma & disability caused by bovine tuberculosis. It’s a story of hope, love, & transformation.
🎥 Watch here: youtu.be/G2TGkACKgCA
#Resilience #DisabilityHistoryMonth #Memoir
Emotional distance in families rarely starts as cruelty. It usually starts as protection.
Someone was hurt badly enough that keeping distance felt safer.
Their children learned love doesn't include closeness.
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#FamilyPatterns #Psychology #Understanding
Attachment styles pass through generations:
🟢 Secure → trust
🟡 Anxious → fear
🔵 Avoidant → walls
🔴 Disorganised → chaos
Your ancestor's style shaped your family's emotional culture.
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#AttachmentTheory #Monday #FamilyHistory #Genealogy
The patterns you see in your family didn't appear from nowhere.
They were:
→ Once the best response
→ Passed down unconsciously
→ Still active today
→ Changeable NOW
You have the power to recognise and shift them.
helenparkerdrabble.com/blog/
#FamilyHistory #Psychology#Genealogy
Exploring your ancestors' psychology can transform your understanding of them.
helenparkerdrabble.com/blog/
This is psychological genealogy - where family history meets mental health.
Ready to see your family in a whole new light? #AncestryHour #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #GenHour
GENEATHERAPY:
Genealogy that asks not just WHO your ancestors were, but WHY they were that way.
Using psychology, trauma research, and historical context to understand family patterns.
And break them.
helenparkerdrabble.com
#Geneatherapy #FamilyHistory
Why do family patterns repeat?
How does trauma pass through generations?
Can we break the cycles?
Think differently about your family. Read
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#FamilyHistory #Psychology #Genealogy #GenHour
A worthy winner Helen and a lovely memory of our successful Creative Writing Competition which highlighted campaigns that took place Away from the Western Front; winners, runners-up and highly-commended can still be read here: awayfromthewesternfront.org/archive/crea...
14.11.2025 17:02 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A black-and-white portrait of 15-year-old Harry Drabble, 1949, playing the violin. He is dressed in a suit jacket and is captured mid-performance, holding the violin with his left hand and the bow with his crooked right hand. The scene conveys a sense of concentration and musical engagement, typical of posed portraits from that era. Read more in ‘Yet’: A Story of Triumph over Childhood Separation, Trauma, and Disability www.helenparkerdrabble.com
What family possession tells the best story?
For me: Dad's self-taught violin. It represents a disabled child fighting back.
What object in your family speaks volumes?
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#FamilyHistory #Genealogy #DisabilityHistoryMonth #Disability #GenHour #AncestryHour
I couldn't find any 😢. Bet i will on Monday lol
13.11.2025 20:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0![Victorian Recipe for elderflower wine To 3 Gallons of Water 9 lbs of Sugar boil 1/2 an hour with whites of 2 eggs when milk warm add to it ½ a peck of picked Elder-Flowers. The juice and peel of 3 Lemons 3 or 4 Table - spoons full of yeast beat all well into the - liquor put into the cask 3 lbs of raisins - stoned. Strain the wine on to the raisins - dissolve Isinglass to fine it. Stir it often for 4 or 5 days when done working bring up - and put about a quart of Brandy to ten 9 gallons of wine. Let the Work the wine in a Peggy Pot before straining it.
Mrs George Eadon Junior [née Ellen Hopkinson]
Work the wine 3 or 4 days in a Peggy Pot before straining it [in a horse hair strainer] MA [Mary Allott]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5553zvzl47nxlhox5wo7cmrc/bafkreicgnqcjpw2k4vz6ngminyehtquwhg4yulq2qysqw2jzqk3xf5emmq@jpeg)
Victorian Recipe for elderflower wine To 3 Gallons of Water 9 lbs of Sugar boil 1/2 an hour with whites of 2 eggs when milk warm add to it ½ a peck of picked Elder-Flowers. The juice and peel of 3 Lemons 3 or 4 Table - spoons full of yeast beat all well into the - liquor put into the cask 3 lbs of raisins - stoned. Strain the wine on to the raisins - dissolve Isinglass to fine it. Stir it often for 4 or 5 days when done working bring up - and put about a quart of Brandy to ten 9 gallons of wine. Let the Work the wine in a Peggy Pot before straining it. Mrs George Eadon Junior [née Ellen Hopkinson] Work the wine 3 or 4 days in a Peggy Pot before straining it [in a horse hair strainer] MA [Mary Allott]
This week I'm exploring a woman's life through her personal Victorian recipes. #Genhour
13.11.2025 20:30 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Hi #GenHour! The Many Faces of Tudor England – Online Talk, 20 Nov, 2pm
Discover the diverse crew of Henry VIII’s flagship with Dr Alexzandra Hildred. Learn how forensic and scientific techniques have brought the faces and lives of Tudor sailors back to light.
Book: portal.sog.org.uk/Event/view/1...
Agreed, brilliantly done. A human story brilliantly told.
13.11.2025 20:11 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sheffield, England 1860s vs 1930s:
Mary's recipe book shows middle-class Victorian domestic life
Harry's hospital shows working-class children's health crisis 70 years later.
Same city. Different worlds. Both stories.
Explore both: helenparkerdrabble.com/blog/
#Sheffield #History #LocalHistory
Lest we forget. FREE digital and audio award-winning short WW1. A factual tale based love story about Chloris joined the all-women's Scottish Women’s Hospital in Macedonia 1917.
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#LestWeForget #RemembranceDay #WW1 #FirstWorldWar #FreeStory #GenHour #AncestryHour
Brilliant, what a wonderful collaboration
13.11.2025 19:57 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Lest we forget. Free digital and audio award-winning short WW1 story. A factual tale based love story about Chloris who joined the all-women's Scottish Women’s Hospital in Macedonia 1917 and was changed forever. payhip.com/b/foxPI
#LestWeForget #RemembranceDay #WW1 #FirstWorldWar #FreeStory
