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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Documenting the C16-C19 poor. Overseas accounts, settlement certificates, removal orders, examinations, poor apprentices, Quarter session references. Historical background to 1834.
Birth Marriage and Death Certificates, contents, how to get at indexes, buy certificates.Problems and how to handle them
Tracing records of skilled workers, apprentices, London Livery Companies, finding references in court records, church wardens accounts, photos. Extensive bibliography of printed and MSS lists, business histories etc.
History of Education, charities, ragged schools, monitorial system, National & British Schools, the various acts improving the chances of the poor and the records through the ages. Admission and log books
Background history, content at different periods, layout of Victorian newspapers, types of local information available, family details. Location: the newspaper Library, online & other copies.