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* Inglorious mud: Caroline Roope explores the world of the mudlarks, people driven by poverty to scavenge along urban waterways * Rebuilding after the Great Fire: The response to London's 1666 fire included raising funds from across the country. Stuart A Raymond reveals some interesting records this generated * Listen to family stories... and then do the research: Nick Thorne builds his family story on firm ground using records readily available online * A father's jealousy: A case from Edwardian England illustrates how basic archival records don't always tell the whole story about a marriage. By Nell Darby * A tale of two towns: 100 years on from Leith's merger with Edinburgh, Nicola Lisle tells the story of the uneasy relationship between Scotland's capital city and its nearby port * History in the details: Materials - leather (part 2) More Info
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* Lives in miniature: Rachel Bates peeks at the world of Georgian miniatures, which offered personal keepsakes in an era before photography * Life on Fleet Street: This long thoroughfare in the City of London has been a centre of commerce for centuries - but there's more to it than just newspapers... By Nell Darby * A walk through history: The smartphone version of Map Explorer opens up the history all around us. By Nick Thorne * The menace of blackmail: Many people have resorted to blackmail over the years, although it is largely the unsuccessful cases that we know about - but how have blackmailers committed the crime, and why? Nell Darby investigates * Almost a saint? Elizabeth Prout is a relatively unknown Victorian figure who played a key role in educating and helping the poor in Manchester during the mid-19th century. Lorraine Schofield tells her story * History in the details: Materials - linen (part 3) More Info
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* Our centenarian ancestors: A perhaps surprising number of our 19th century ancestors reached their 90s or even their centuries - and press interest in their age can really help the family historian, as Nell Darby explains * The marvels of Metro-land: Caroline Roope discovers the London commuter suburbs promoted by the expanding Metropolitan Railway in the early 20th century * A welfare pioneer: Sadie McMullon tells the story of Agnes Marshall Loomes, a pivotal figure for infant welfare * Addressing Sir Alexander: Nick Thorne addresses where Sir Alexander Fleming lived - the man who discovered penicillin by chance in Paddington * History in the details: Materials - cotton (part 3) More Info
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by Cliff Webb (8th edition 2007.) Shows how to reduce the cost of searching for Victorian London ancestors, with a list of parishes and registers for the London area outside the City, created before 1870, and with A2 map of parish boundaries c.1870. The latest edition, as well as showing the latest register deposits, has an appendix making it easier to locate churches in smaller districts and also...More Info
January 1911. Compiled at the beginning of November 1910, five months before the 1911 census, this is a directory of subscribers to two telephone companies operating in the London Area, viz. The Post Office London Telephone Service and The National Telephone Company, listing an estimated 125,000 subscribers. The area covered includes Barnet, Croydon, Esher, Harrow, Kingston, Richmond, Wimbledon an...More Info
Over 109,800 burials from the following 42 parishes have been transcribed and indexed: Acton, 1542, 1566-1684, 1759-1812 (4241); Chiswick, 1813-1850 (4066); Edgware, 1841-1867 (376); Edmonton and Tottenham Congregational Chapel, 1792-1809, 1826 (58); Edmonton Weld Chapel, 1813-1903 (568); Feltham, 1813-1866 (1161); Finchley, 1560-1679, 1701-1812 (7740); Finchley ...More Info
"200 Jahre deutscher Schule in London 1708-1908". A history of the German School attached to St Mary in the Savoy, London, published in 1908 for the bi-centenary of the school. Translated by Amanda Price. Occasional issue No 2 (2016)
The indexed parish registers of St Paul's German Reformed Church, Whitechapel, London. The church was firstly at Hooper Square and then at Goulston Street until destroyed in the London Blitz. Three microfiche containing baptisms 1824-1940, marriages 1858-1938 and burials 1832-1940.