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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Do you have old photographs that you would like to identify and date? This and its companion volume on the nineteenth century are the books you need. They will also help you in the task of preserving the family album.
Family and local historians frequently come across terms for occupations that are now obsolete. This dictionary explains some 4,000 such terms.
Every family historian needs to know what parish registers, bishops' transcripts, and nonconformist registers are available. This volume provides the authoritative and most detailed listing available. It indicates where they can be found, and also what copies and transcripts are available
Pollbooks list everyone who voted in Parliamentary elections, and provide excellent means of tracing particular surnames across entire counties in the eighteenth century. Yorkshire family and local historians will find these three facsimile pollbooks valuable sources of information on surnames.
This is the authoritative guide to everything that has been published and is likely to be of interest to family historians. It is published in 3 volumes: 1. Genealogical Sources 2. Registers, Inscriptions, & Wills 3. Family Histories. These volumes normally retail at