Issue 15 features: * Tracing the tiger: Paul Matthews looks at the many mind altering drugs our ancestors might have fallen prey to * Lest we forget...: The WW1 centenary begins * Family reflections: Ruth Symes on the history of mirrors * Were they in India?: A useful research avenue to explore * From store to war: The sad fate of many Harrods staff in WW1 * Graphic conflict: WW1 explored through infographics * Finding the freemasons: Jill Morris enters a secret world * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on sunglasses * What’s on * Books * Place in focus: Wiltshire More Info
Product Code: DYAP015
* The secret worshippers: Stuart A. Raymond explores researching Catholic recusants through his detailed study of a parish in Wiltshire * More than just scrawls on walls: Is graffiti a mark of disrespect or social comment? Denise Bates looks at its long history * Tales of the Cartaret dynasty: Nick Thorne follows up a chance finding in the tithe records, leading him to the story of a Royalist privateer commemorated in America * The child-snatchers: Playing to our insecurities both as children and parents, kidnapping remains a rare but particularly scary crime, writes Nell Darby * Motherhood and madness in the Victorian era: Lorraine Schofield explores the gap between the ideal of womanhood in the 19th century and the reality of mental illness * History in the details: Railway staff uniforms More Info
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This volume gives information on all those people tried before the Special Commission of Assize, which opened at Salisbury in December 1830. Details include, the offence, sentence, any petition sent on the persons behalf, and in many cases family information, including baptism, marriage, death, brothers & sisters, & children. For those who were transported additional information includes, hulk rec...More Info
This Volume tells the story of the riots in Wiltshire, from the first farm fire at Maddington on the 8th November 1830, through the troubled weeks of November when the unrest was at its height. Also given is a day by day account of the trials at Salisbury in January 1831 , when over 300 men and women appeared before the Special Commission. This is followed by brief details of the events of 1831 & ...More Info
Reprint of of the 19th century publication 'In a Wiltshire Village' by Mrs Haughton. A5 softback 20 pages.
Marriages in Wiltshire taken by Steven Hobbs from sources other than parish registers/bishops transcripts, and also corrections/additions to the Marriage Licence Bond CD. A5 52p.
Map of Wiltshire & Contiguous Parishes with index and notes. Single A3 sheet folded to A4