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
Product Code: DYAP016
* 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
Product Code: DYAP082
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A transcript of all entries that mention paupers by name including a map of the Poor Law Union, glossary of terms, extracts from some Acts of Parliament affecting paupers, and a surname index. The extracts mention paupers receiving relief both in the workhouse and outside, including asylums, and may give details of settlement and removal, medical relief, apprenticeship, bastardy cases, emigration,...More Info
A transcript of all entries that mention paupers by name including a map of the Poor Law Union, glossary of terms, extracts from some Acts of Parliament affecting paupers, and a surname index. The extracts mention paupers receiving relief both in the workhouse and outside, including asylums, and may give details of settlement and removal, medical relief, apprenticeship, bastardy cases, emigration,...More Info
A transcript of all entries that mention paupers by name including a map of the Poor Law Union, glossary of terms, extracts from some Acts of Parliament affecting paupers, and a surname index. The extracts mention paupers receiving relief both in the workhouse and outside, including asylums, and may give details of settlement and removal, medical relief, apprenticeship, bastardy cases, emigration,...More Info
A transcript of all entries that mention paupers by name including a map of the Poor Law Union, glossary of terms, extracts from some Acts of Parliament affecting paupers, and a surname index. The extracts mention paupers receiving relief both in the workhouse and outside, including asylums, and may give details of settlement and removal, medical relief, apprenticeship, bastardy cases, emigration,...More Info