Colchester Holocaust Memorial Day 2021
The organisers of Colchester’s Holocaust Memorial Day asked me to contribute to this year's online events and I am grateful for the opportunity to make it meaningful despite the current…
Success for Where Are The Grown-Ups? at Independent Author Network Book of the Year Awards 2020
Where are the grown-ups? is among the finalists in the Memoir category of the Independent Author Network Book of the Year Awards 2020. The US-based book contest, endorsed by the…
An audio interview with Robin Quinn of the Independent Writers of Southern California
https://youtu.be/c17wiNKVKHY Members of the IWOSC based in LA joined a zoom session on Turning Your Family History into a Book. Ruth Badley, author of Where are the grown-ups? answers questions…
New information from an invoice dated 1933
The second part of my memoir, Where are the grown-ups? required some historical research. I didn't include everything I found out and some questions are only occurring to me now,…
The Great Escape
The Daily Telegraph's feature on moving from a city to a rural location features Ruth and Tim Badley as one of three case studies. The journalist was kind enough to…
Guest author for Memoir Mentors
A presentation, discussion and Q&A on all aspects of using your family's story as material for a book. The group chose to read Where are the grown-ups? and invited me…
Author talk to The National Women’s Register
An audience of some 50 plus NWR members joined me online for a presentation and Q&A on Where are the grown-ups? http:// https://amzn.to/2tNvGBj Click on link to watch. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k129UejO-Zo&feature=youtu.be
A talk and reading for The Junction, Dubai
I was part of Dubai's theatre community for the two and half years I lived in the United Arab Emirates and made many friends there. It was great to reconnect…
How to turn your family history into a book
Before the Covid-19 crisis forced the cancellation of shows and exhibitions, Family Tree Magazine had asked me to run a workshop for budding writers at their planned event in London.…
A presentation to the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain
https://youtu.be/1FgVJcIqAuc A presentation, reading and Q&A with members of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain. Do genealogists always know what happens to the information they uncover? Perhaps not. This…