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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**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
**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** **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
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
Based on an exhibition held at the Dorman Museum in 1992, this book tells the history of Middlesbrough churches, their buildings and the people involved with them. 1994. 52 pages. ISBN 0 9507199 3 5