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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By Janet Keet-Black. Boatmen, Circus, Gypsies, Photographers, Showmen, Theatricals - extracted from Berkshire, Cornwall, Devon, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Herefordshire, Lancashire, Oxfordshire, Somerset, Staffordshire, Surrey, Carmarthenshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Glamorganshire, Monmouthshire. Transcribed in "as enumerated" format with a surname index. 60 pages.
To celebrate the hopping season we are making this book available at the special price of £3, normally £7.50, until the end of November. Edited by Janet Keet-Black and the late Mary Horner A5 paperback book, 60 pages, black-and-white family photographs The book contains people's memories and photos of when they or their older family members used to go hop-picking plus articles about the...More Info
The Ley Hunter’s Manual was written by Alfred Watkins, a Herefordshire-based antiquarian, businessman and photography pioneer, and first published in 1927 as a follow-up to his hugely successful book The Old Straight Track (also available from Heritage Hunter). Although later adopted by the New Age movement to mean lines of ‘earth energies’, Watkins’ original vision of ‘leys’ was simpl...More Info
The Old Straight Track was written by Alfred Watkins, a Herefordshire-based antiquarian, businessman and photography pioneer, and first published in 1925. It is the book which introduced the concept of ‘ley lines’. Although later adopted by the New Age movement to mean lines of ‘earth energies’, Watkins’ original vision was simply of a system of alignments of natural and man-made feature...More Info