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 Helen Barrell

Helen Barrell is a librarian at the University of Birmingham. She has appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Punt PI, has written for magazines such as Fortean Times and Family Tree, and guest blogs for Findmypast.

Her first book, Poison Panic: Arsenic Deaths in 1840s Essex, was published by Pen and Sword in 2016.

Helen’s history website is at http://essexandsuffolksurnames.co.uk and she blogs about writing at http://helenbarrell.co.uk