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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New edition (2001) by Bill Breckon, Jeffrey Parker & Martin Andrew. This well-illustrated book outlines the history and development of English homes, from the Saxon aisled hall up to the present day. The changing styles of architecture and building materials are covered, and special note made of regional variations. There is a step-by-step guide to accurately dating houses, which includes walls an...More Info
By Trevor Yorke. Many villages have a fascinating history, and visible features from earlier centuries are a powerful temptation to search for wider information. In this book, Trevor Yorke takes on the role of village detective as he documents their development from pre-Roman settlements to the present day. In addition, his superb drawings illustrate the physical appearance of the village through ...More Info
2nd edition (1996) By Colin R. Chapman. Mainly aimed at remote researchers, this is a helpful guide that details many things you can do outside the county you are researching, especially useful to those tracing British ancestors from overseas. This book covers some subjects and areas omitted from other general guides - for example Scotland, Ireland, Isle of Man and Channel Islands are covered - an...More Info
If your ancestors scarcely appear in the parish registers, or worse, if two or three of the same name occur at the same time: if your great grandfather dropped in out of the blue, yet there is no settlement certificate, and all the evidence points to his being a man of property if you are lucky, you will find the magic words, "my copyhold land" or "I have surrendered to the uses of my will " in an...More Info