Mia Thomas

The unquenchable thirst for history - particularly local history - was present from a very early age, but it wasn’t until I undertook a genealogy course that my interest intensified. Every rock that I turned seemed to reveal another question mark - another avenue to pursue. Discovering my family roots dragged me into other realms, realities much different from our own, where life, without doubt, was far more difficult to navigate with the most basic of means.

My attention, as you will discover, is focused on the vulnerable underbelly of the working-class, and my books cover several different aspects of daily life throughout the whole of the Victorian era. Hailing from the first railway town on the planet, Shildon, in County Durham, naturally, the topic of railways feature quite a lot in my books. Additionally I cover subjects like disease, education, religion, coal mining, crime, World War One, social activities and much more besides. In contrast to this, however, my last composition is a book called Haunted, which comes in two volumes and was completed last year.