Issue 17 features: * Scotshots: Jayne Shrimpton investigates photography and photographers in Scotland * Scotland remembers: New heritage plaques unveiled * The utmost bravery: Distinguished Conduct Medals online * Women in war: Kirsty Gray reveals how WW1 affected women and led to major changes in society * Female tommies: Women's nursing services in WW1 * Finding freedom: Records of freemen and burgesses * History in the details: How blazer jackets developed * Place in focus: Staffordshire More Info
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By Michael Gandy. Providing details of Roman Catholic churches and missions, on a county-by-county basis, with dates of foundation and the dates and location of their records. This volume covers the counties of Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Derbyshire, Huntingdonshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Rutland, Shropshire, Staff...More Info
By Janet Keet-Black. Boatmen, Circus, Gypsies, Photographers, Showmen, Theatricals - extracted from Berkshire, Cornwall, Devon, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Herefordshire, Lancashire, Oxfordshire, Somerset, Staffordshire, Surrey, Carmarthenshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Glamorganshire, Monmouthshire. Transcribed in "as enumerated" format with a surname index. 60 pages.
This is an unusual biography: that of a young woman who, despite the strictures of the British class system, rose from a childhood in a farm cottage and a career with Astley’s Circus to earn a place in the British aristocracy. The Gypsy Countess recounts the life of Catherine Cox, daughter of a Romany Gypsy woman and an agricultural labourer, who in 1855 married George Harry Grey, Earl o...More Info
Classification of professional gentlemen, bankers, &c., and manufacturers and traders in the cities, towns and principal villages in the counties of Cheshire, Cumberland, Derbyshire, Durham, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northumberland, Nottinghamshire, Rutlandshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Westmoreland, Worcestershire, Yorkshire and the whole of North Wales. Includes ...More Info
Applications to diocese of Lichfield: Staffordshire, Derbyshire, Warwickshire & Shropshire entries. Place of nonconformist worship were once required to acquire a licence from the diocese. This index names all decipherable names from the applications held for the diocese of Lichfield.