Ringstead People
For many years David Ball researched and wrote the lives of the ordinary people of Ringstead, a Northamptonshire village — labourers and shopkeepers, soldiers and sailors, and the men who served in the First World War. This site gathers his books into a single, lasting archive of 130 stories you can explore by name, by time, by theme, or by book.
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Wander in
To New Worlds and Back
Elisha Ball is one of the those Nineteenth Century Ringstead people whose lives caution us not to think that all the villagers were born, lived and di
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Boston Workhouse
Sarah Manning (1809 - 1875)
Hard Times?
Jedidah Louisa Abington (1837 – 1914)
Soldier of Empire
We first find Thomas Ball in 1841 aged seven living in Ringstead, with his parents Daniel, a shepherd, and Phoebe and his brothers, ‘Daniel, John, Jam