Stepping Stones CD publication. Contents of Cambridgeshire 1883 Post Office Directory Contains hundreds of names and addresses of people living in this county at the time. Over 130 pages. Includes description of each place, with Post Office, agricultural and commercial information. Towns and Villages covered include : Bassingbourn, Bottisham, Bourn, Cambridge (29 pages), Chatteris, Chesterton, Isle of Ely (8 pages), Fulbourn, Grantchester, Isleham, Leverington, March, Newmarket, Papworth E More Info
What are wills, and how can they be used for family and local history research? How can you interpret them and get as much insight from them as possible? They are key documents for exploring the lives of our ancestors, their circumstances, and the world they knew. This practical handbook is the essential guide to understanding them. More Info
Product Code: BK6216
This fully revised and updated Second Edition is an expert introduction for the family historian to the wealth of material available to researchers in archives throughout Northern Ireland. Many records, like the early twentieth-century census returns and school registers, will be familiar to researchers, but others are often overlooked by all but the most experienced of genealogists. An easy-to-use, informative guide to the comprehensive collections available at the Public Record Office of N More Info
Product Code: BK6430
Every part of the United Kingdom has its own, distinctive history – not just the major battles and key historical events which may have played out there, but also the smaller details of everyday life which impinged upon the actual lives of our ancestors more directly. The team behind the popular family and social history magazine Discover Your Ancestors has put together a region-by-region guide to the United Kingdom which will give you a flavour of each area’s history and a run-down of the many More Info
Product Code: BK6449
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This book was originally published for private circulation in 1897 and whilst diaries were very popular around this time, this is more of an autobiography which gives a well described picture of the life of a clergyman from the middle to end of the nineteenth century in Devon and on the border of Somerset. Whilst, as expected, he was well acquainted with local members of the gentry, we also have a...More Info
Seventeenth-century Rutland token and those who issued them - an illustrated catalogue of local tokens with full descriptions and biographical information. Francis Davis (1775-1848), a Rutland cavalryman - the story of a man from the village of Morcott who served in the 18th Hussars during the Peninsula War. Rutland's monumental brasses and a Victorian schoolboy's hobby - the activities of a boy...More Info
Langham Remembers Them tells the stories of the men of Langham and Barleythorpe who lost their lives in the Great War: their photographs, their backgrounds, their regiments, where they fought and the circumstances of their deaths. It is the Village History Group's 2014 tribute to these brave men. Contents include - Author’s Introduction; Background to the Great War; Call to Arms; 5th Battalio...More Info
There is the usual rich variety of articles. Firstly the work of commercial photographer Samuel Hockett from the 1880s to the 1950s. The new A4 format for the history journals has enabled many large reproductions of key historical moments and also everyday scenes. In addition, an article about US founding fathers passing through Barnet; a local man’s reflections on his war service in North A...More Info
Articles about the coaching heyday of Barnet; local man Andrew Crichton, protection officer for the Prince of Wales for many decades (before he became King); ;local poet Dennis Evans; a Victorian water fountain brought back to use; Twelfth century life in Barnet; the statue of Peace in Friary Park; Traffic in Barnet in the 1920s; and reproductions of many historical postcards of East Barnet and N...More Info