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Issue 5 features: * Light industry: Jayne Shrimpton focuses on the fast-growing trade of photography from the 19th century onward * Round up the black sheep: Resources newly online will help track down ancestors with a shady past * Forced from home: Chris Paton offers guidance on tracing ancestors who moved or emigrated in the Highland Clearances * Books: A round up of recent publications * Place in focus: Explore and research Herefordshire roots * Jack and the Jews: We explore the history of prejudice against London’s Jewish community in the 1880s * Break the brick walls: Wills before 1858 More Info
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Issue 11 features: * Knots for Scots: Regular and irregular Borders marriages * Helping the community: Join a major new volunteer project * Off the rails: The context of 19th century railway accidents * Counter intelligence: Take a shopping trip in Victorian times * Sphere of influence: Contemporary WW1 newspapers * Books/This month: Recent publications and upcoming events * Place in focus: Explore County Durham history and records * Break the brick walls: Tracing illegitimate ancestors More Info
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Issue 19 features: * Life's a lottery: the long history of state-backed gambling * Plots from the past: old maps to buy, with a special offer * Fresh from the front: WW1 newspapers explored * Saturday night soldiers: WW1 Territorial Army records online * Seeking asylums?: records of mental illness go digital * Stall stories: old pictures of London's East End markets * "Weak in intellect": the sad story of people with cognitive disabilities who were sent to the workhouse * The herald calls: mediaeval visitations investigated * History in the details: shawls More Info
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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
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Keith Gregson explores the life of Howard Marshall, a Lion, Barbarian and England International rugby half back. This book is supported by ten or more photographs/illustrations and is thoroughly and carefully referenced. More Info
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* Canine companions: Dogs have followed in our footsteps for many centuries. Jayne Shrimpton explores the historic relationship with man's best friend * A family of Friends: Antony Barlow explores the history of the Society of Friends through the prism of his own longstanding Quaker family * A 'Greatorex' by any other name: Keith Gregson puts TheGenealogist's powerful search engine to the test * Swindon: 175 years on track: Nicola Lisle explores the history of Swindon, and looks at how it was transformed from a tiny market town into a major railway centre * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on pyjamas * The Brits vs the Boers: Jill Morris on South African history More Info
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* The wreck of the SS London: 150 years ago this notorious shipping disaster claimed the lives of hundreds, as Simon Wills explains * A comedy heroine descended from a WW1 hero: Nick Thorne takes a look at the family of the well-loved and talented entertainer Victoria Wood * Finding other people's secrets: Jocelyn Robson explains how she investigated a fascinating story of a woman who faked her own death and reinvented herself * Stythies, handlooms and tenterhooks: Melvyn Jones delves into the working lives of home-based handloom weavers and metalworkers * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on jodhpurs * Great Scots online: Jill Morris explores the wealth of Scottish records available More Info
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* Home Front fashion: Jayne Shrimpton stitches together a seamless history of fashion economies during WW1 * Is it worth 'giving them a bell'?: Keith Gregson examines how late Victorian/early Edwardian telephone directories can help the family historian * 'Wrens': the women of the Royal Navy: Simon Wills looks at the history of the Women's Royal Naval Service * The Great British Chocolate Factory: We've loved chocolate in Britain for centuries - but how did we get the taste for it, and who was responsible? Nell Darby finds out* History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on smocks * Anglicans in the archives: Jill Morris looks at the history of the Church of England, and records of clergy available online More Info
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* Dressed to drive: Jayne Shrimpton explores the sartorial history of early motoring * Bringing opera to the masses: When theatre manager Richard D'Oyly Carte asked Gilbert and Sullivan to compose some music for him, it led to the creation of an entire opera company, as Nell Darby explains * Grandpa never mentioned that!: Nick Thorne discovered an unexpected literary connection to his family * History's forgotten workers: The 19th and early 20th centuries saw a great rise in clerical work. Richard Willis explores the largely overlooked work of legal clerks * Family fireworks: We explore actor Kit Harington's links to both the Gunpowder Plot and the king it tried to kill * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on underwear More Info
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* It's behind you! Nicola Lisle delves into the history of that great British theatrical institution, the pantomime * The pilot, MP and communist pioneer: Nick Thorne discovers the early aviator and first British communist MP Cecil L'Estrange Malone * A good word for Dr Johnson: Nell Darby looks at the history of dictionaries, and the pioneering work of Dr Samuel Johnson * Saving lives at sea: The RNLI's orange-and-blue lifeboats are a familiar sight on our coastline. Its brave crews have saved lives at sea for almost two centuries, writes Sue Wilkes * The village lock-up: They can still be seen in various locations around the country. But what was the village lockup, and why did they exist? Nell Darby peers through the bars * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on men's jewellery More Info
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* The near death of a community: Wayne Shepheard looks at the effect of major storms on communities in the past through the example of the Great Gale of 1824 * Was your ancestor a Royalist delinquent? Stuart A. Raymond explains the purpose of Royalist composition papers and how they can help researchers * The soldier, the priest and the count: Nick Thorne looks at one family with three remarkable leaders of men * The tale of a transported felon: Nell Darby investigates the brief crime and long punishment of a London hawker * Is there anybody there? Caroline Roope explores the heyday of spiritualism * History in the details: Shop workers' dress More Info
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* Smart at school: Jayne Shrimpton educates us on how school uniforms have developed over time * Automobile antics: Nell Darby takes us for a spin through the early years of motor car use * One ring to bind them: Nick Thorne uses online map tools to search for a stone burial chamber which moved 170 miles away from where its Neolithic builders originally put it * Offending women: The Calendars of Prisoners for Liverpool in the 1840s suggest that female offending wasn't as unusual as you might think €¦ Nell Darby investigates * A striking story: Dene Bebbington tells the tale of the match girls' strike * History in the details: Materials - leather (part 1) More Info
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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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* Stocks and Bond: Nick Thorne addresses the records for where the stockbroker who created 007 once lived * The tormenting verdict of 'not proven': Stephen Wade looks into the Ardlamont mystery and talks to the alleged killer's great-grandson, David Potter * The Irristum Remedy Company: Nell Darby investigates a company run by a married couple, aimed at curing female ills - but they had their own problems * A tale of two cousins: Denise Bates digs into a family mystery and discovers one of her forebears played an important role in fraud investigations * Queen of Hearts: Caroline Roope marks the 200th anniversary of the death of Caroline of Brunswick, wife of George IV * History in the details: Materials - wool (part 7) More Info
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* Master of endurance: Marking the centenary of Ernest Shackleton's death this month, Caroline Roope tells the remarkable story of this great explorer * History's reckoning: From clay tablets to computers, Richard Willis explores the history of accounting and accountants * Crime among cops: We rely on our police forces to help us, solving crimes and making us feel safe. But there is a long history of scandal within the police ranks... By Nell Darby * Updating a Shetland ancestry: Keith Gregson examines some of the resources - old and new - useful for researching roots on the Scottish isles * A brewer's road to Damascus: Nick Thorne follows the story of Frederick Nicholas Charrington, the ex-brewer who built a temperance movement hall down the road from the brewery * History in the details: Materials - cotton (part 1) More Info
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