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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 18 (October 2014)
Issue 18 features: * Housekeeping through history: Margaret Powling shows how housekeeping books can illuminate social history * Celebration of place: A new one-place studies conference * Wounded in WW1: Explore 1.3m casualty records online * Sea changes: Karen Foy on the many ways we can learn about our migrant ancestors * A walk in the park: The development of public parks * The slippery poll: 18th and 19th century poll books revealed * History in the details: Cloaks and mantles * Places in Focus: Norwich More Info
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The Ormerods: A Lancashire Family 1500 to 1750/1800 (reprint with addendum, 2002). By Milton B Ormerod
The first part of this book gives an account how people lived and the relevant genealogical sources. The application of these is then illustrated in the account of the family. This makes it all pertinent to a much wider readership than just the descendants of the Ormerods. The book is illustrated and contains over 15 family trees.
Heraldry in the Shire Hall, Lancaster Castle
The Shire Hall in Lancaster Castle contains a collection of heraldry which is probably unique in the British Isles, containing as it does over 600 shields bearing the arms of all the sovereigns of England, the Constables of Lancaster Castle and the High Sheriffs of Lancashire from 1189 to 2000. This book contains a description of all the shields in full heraldic terms. The book is a must for anyon...More Info
The Chipping Barnet War Memorial World War One
This book tells of the men on the memorial from World War One: who they were, and where and when they fell in the war. Interwoven with this is a timeline of the war and its main battles. The book contains lots of images and a number of appendixes (including a cross reference guide showing other Barnet war memorials that these men appear on).
The Second Boer War
This book records information about the service and family histories of several men of Chipping Barnet who served in the Second Boer war 1899-1902. The book explains the background to the conflict and charts the course of the war. It includes a timeline which explores some key events of the British Empire from 1600-to-date. 96 pages A4 format.
Royalty in Barnet - Honouring The Platinum Jubilee of her Majesty Queen Elisabeth II 1952-2022
This book has been created in recognition of the Queen's 70 years of service. It covers royal connections with Barnet from earliest times. The Queen's Silver, Golden and Diamond Jubilees as well as visits made to Barnet are all included. The book is lavishly illustrated - a delight to the eye.There is much information of interest too.