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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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Langham Lads
The stories in this booklet take a nostalgic look at village life in Langham in the early part of the twentieth century. Charming Illustrations by Brenda Witcombe - Published March 2011 To read a page please visit http://www.langhaminrutland.org.uk/publications.htm
Looking Back at Langham
A series of articles written for the Langham News and exhibition texts from the Lookback at Langham exhibition and the Langham 2000 exhibition. Delightful illustrations drawn by Anthony Wright. Published Jan 2011 - To read a page please visit http://www.langhaminrutland.org.uk/publications.htm
They Left Langham
The stories of families who, over the centuries, have emigrated from Langham in Rutland. Written by Ann Grimmer \[Palmer\], - To read a page please go to http://www.langhaminrutland.org.uk/books/TLL28.pdf
Tales of Langham"Things Were Different Then"
Bill Nourish (now in his nineties) has been writing down his memories of his boyhood and youth in Langham for a number of years and all of them are included in Langham Village History Group’s archive. On several occasions, Bill has told us that he has “run dry” but fortunately, this has not been the case. Thanks are due to Freda Smithson, Bill’s typist, and to Brenda Witcomb for her ill...More Info
Langham Remembers Them
Langham Remembers Them tells the stories of the men of Langham and Barleythorpe who lost their lives in the Great War: their photographs, their backgrounds, their regiments, where they fought and the circumstances of their deaths. It is the Village History Group's 2014 tribute to these brave men. Contents include - Author’s Introduction; Background to the Great War; Call to Arms; 5th Battalio...More Info