Issue 18 features: * Housekeeping through history: Margaret Powling shows how housekeeping books can illuminate social history * Celebration of place: A new one-place studies conference * Wounded in WW1: Explore 1.3m casualty records online * Sea changes: Karen Foy on the many ways we can learn about our migrant ancestors * A walk in the park: The development of public parks * The slippery poll: 18th and 19th century poll books revealed * History in the details: Cloaks and mantles * Places in Focus: Norwich More Info
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This book, containing 160 pages, looks at the photographs taken of some Victorian prisoners held on remand in Gloucester Gaol at certain times between 1871 and 1906. It looks at the different styles of dress, the various groups of prisoners, from the children to the elderly, and where they originated, which could be anywhere in the world! Background research using extensive archive material into...More Info
Books and libraries are vital to genealogists. That is the message of this book and it will be neglected at the risk of wasting a great deal of time and failing to find the information you need. This book sets out to answer four questions: What can the genealogist expect from libraries? How should libraries be used? What family history resources are they likely to hold? How can books of relevance ...More Info
Edited by Janet Keet-Black and the late Mary Horner A5 paperback book, 60 pages, black-and-white family photographs This RTFHS publication has been out-of-print for 10 years. We are pleased to make it available again so that today's family historians can get a real sense of what their ancestors experienced in the hop-gardens of Kent, Sussex, Hampshire and Herefordshire in times past. The ...More Info
Ten Major Gypsy Families of Wales & The English West & North - as its title implies - brings together the family trees of 10 families, grouped by the region of Britain in which they originated, lived and travelled and – no doubt in some cases – associated with each other and intermarried. The result is a book that is very different in format to the previous 17 single-surname volumes i...More Info
By Tony Dixon This is a much expanded and updated second edition of the book originally published by the author in 2013. Additional research conducted in the intervening years means that the book has trebled in size. It now includes not only a more complete biography of William Ayres (1806-1872) and his family but also looks back at earlier generations, individuals who lived in the early 1...More Info