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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Useful memoranda, lists and notes that were considered to be of sufficient importance that they should be kept for future reference. A5 softback, 32 pages
.At first sight Ellen Nelsen’s behaviour appears shocking. Among other misdeeds she appears to have been bigamously married twice. Given her circumstances, however, her survival is a triumph of fortitude over betrayal. Bigamy, Bankruptcy, War and Divorce –The tangled life of a Toddington Landlord is the story of 100 First World War love letters discovered in a bank vault ...More Info
Over the years, people have told me that they have completed their family history - my answer to that is ... you never finish because there is always more to discover. When I began writing these guides to discovering your family history, I thought it would all go into one relatively small book - how wrong I was! As I worked on the first book, it became obvious that a second volume would be neede...More Info
Lists of names are invaluable sources of information to family historians. They help us to locate our ancestors in time and place. Many lists for Surrey and Sussex are in print, and readily available in libraries. They can be identified in this volume, which lists Domesday book, tax lists, loyalty oaths, poll book and electoral registers, the census, the return of owners of land, and trade directo...More Info
By the late Betsy Stanley Edited by Janet Keet-Black A5 paperback book 60 pages Black-and-white family photographs Memories of the Marsh: A Traveller Life in Kent was first published by the RTFHS in 1998 and has long been out-of-print. It's the autobiography of Betsy Stanley née Cooper, describing her life growing up in the close-knit Belvedere Marsh Gypsy community in North Kent from t...More Info