Issue 16 features: * Living on leftovers: Nell Darby explores the forgotten practice of gleaning after the harvest * Fit for a king: The new Richard III visitor centre in Leicester * Justly honoured: Military Medal records from WW1 go online * Short o’ pobbies: Lancashire dialect and the Cotton Famine * Hopping through history: The hop pickers of SE England * To Botany Bay and beyond: Convict transportation records * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on straw boaters More Info
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* Skin in the game: Jayne Shrimpton explores the history of the fur trade and the work of furriers and related occupations * The early papers: Paul Matthews has the headlines about the burgeoning world of newspapers in the 18th century * Finding the bad egg: How hard can it be to find a criminal ancestor in the digital archives - and do we all have one? * Gather ye records why ye may! Nick Thorne finds out about the Herricks of Leicester * A sense of place: Chris Paton explains what Irish land records reveal * History in the details: Nursing uniforms More Info
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The Midland register covers 1768-1811 and 1816. The Midland District comprised the counties of Derbyshire, Huntingdonshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Suffolk, Warwickshire and Worcestershire. Includes an index to names, 265 pages The London Register covers 1826-1837 and 1843. The London District was comprised ...More Info
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
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
Full description of a fine map of Oakham of 1787 and transcript of accompanying field books. Discussion of the layout of the town, its inhabitants, topography, buildings, roads, fields. Assessment of how the map (the earliest known for Oakham) reveals likely features of the early medieval town. Transcript of Oakham's entry in the Universal British Directory of 1791. Full index. 104pp, paperback, c...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