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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By Jill Groves. The turmoil of the English civil wars in the seventeenth century affected all parts of the kingdom,dividing both the county and individual families. There were other ramifications as well, in terms of the local economy and the damage caused by the war. This book looks in detail at the effect of the conflict on the parish of Northenden, south of Manchester. This second expanded edit...More Info
This Book examines the lives of many lines in Greater Manchester Area there decline and closure of many lost Today
3rd edition (2001) by Joy Bristow. This reference book is as essential to family historians as it is to local historians. Its 256 pages are not only filled with explanations of words and terms you also wondered about, but also contains information on Latin terms and phrases, regnal years, early currency and its value, bibles, saint days and festivals, moveable feast days, sittings of the Supreme C...More Info
By Paul Hindle. Old maps provide a rich source of information and insight for all those interested in the history of their locality as well as fascinating many others and proving popular with collectors. The author describes the different types of map produced, explains what they were intended to show and, most importantly, where to find them. From the earliest cartographic depictions of Britain, ...More Info