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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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Thomas Cromwell: A Historical Sourcebook
The perfect companion to Hilary Mantel’s trilogy of Wolf Hall, Bring up the Bodies and The Mirror and the Light, and the biographies of Thomas Cromwell by Diarmaid MacCulloch and Tracy Borman. Interest in the 16th century British statesman Thomas Cromwell, right-hand man to Henry VIII until he lost favour with the king, has never been greater than in the last decade, fuelled by award-winning ...More Info
The Nail-makers of Hoylandswaine compiled by Cynthia Dillon
**Released: August 2016. Revised and updated. It provides essential background details about the nail-making families of Hoylandswaine.** Barnsley FHS is publishing an updated edition, first published in 1999 by the Hoylandswaine History Group. The restructured layout and format includes additional information from Census returns (up to 1911) Probate record extracts, birth, marriage...More Info
Descent into Silence: Cawthorne’s Forgotten Tragedy by David Hinchliffe
**Book launched: 23 May 2021.** An account by local author and Barnsley FHS member, **David Hinchliffe**, documenting the ten men and boys killed in the Norcroft Colliery Disaster 23rd May 1821. “Using contemporary reports to help piece the jigsaw together, historical context and detailed genealogical research into the backgrounds of those involved, this account offers a fascinating insig...More Info
The Holgate 100
**THE HOLGATE 100** **Barnsley Holgate Grammar Schoolboys Who Fell During the Second World War** This publication was prompted by the rediscovery of the Barnsley Holgate Grammar School WW 2 Memorial Board which had been lost when the school was demolished in 2012. This Board has now been restored, finding a permanent home at Shaw Lane Sports Complex which is, coincidentally, adjacent to the ...More Info
Historic reflections across the Tees
Published in 2001, by the Society, to mark the new Millennium the book includes: Chapter 1: Order & Disorder in Medieval Cleveland. Geoffrey S. Braddy, Chapter 2: The Reformation Era in Cleveland. Christine M. Newman, Chapter 3: Late 18th Century Writing on Cleveland Agriculture. Mark Whyman, Chapter 4: The Impact of Industry. John K. Harrison , Chapter 5: Housing & Health in 19th Century Teesside...More Info