Issue 5 features: * Light industry: Jayne Shrimpton focuses on the fast-growing trade of photography from the 19th century onward * Round up the black sheep: Resources newly online will help track down ancestors with a shady past * Forced from home: Chris Paton offers guidance on tracing ancestors who moved or emigrated in the Highland Clearances * Books: A round up of recent publications * Place in focus: Explore and research Herefordshire roots * Jack and the Jews: We explore the history of prejudice against London’s Jewish community in the 1880s * Break the brick walls: Wills before 1858 More Info
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Issue 11 features: * Knots for Scots: Regular and irregular Borders marriages * Helping the community: Join a major new volunteer project * Off the rails: The context of 19th century railway accidents * Counter intelligence: Take a shopping trip in Victorian times * Sphere of influence: Contemporary WW1 newspapers * Books/This month: Recent publications and upcoming events * Place in focus: Explore County Durham history and records * Break the brick walls: Tracing illegitimate ancestors More Info
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Issue 23 features: * Lost and found: Sharon Brookshaw explores the history of child abandonment and the rise of foundling institutions * The Marine boys (and girls): Nell Darby on the history of a unique society which helps poor children find work at sea * Plotting the past: Tithe maps are coming online * A nation of gardeners: Margaret Powling digs into the history of gardening as a popular pastime * The First Fleeters: Laura Berry follows the experiences of people in the first penal colony to be founded in Australia * Before the trains came: Horse-drawn transport in Leeds * The great survey: Jill Morris delves into Griffith’s Valuation * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on wellies More Info
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Issue 25 features: *The front line of faith: Nicola Lisle looks at 150 years of the Salvation Army, and how to trace Salvationist ancestors *All the fun of the fair: Yorkshire Family History Fair preview *Before the census: Chris Paton looks at Scottish census and census substitute records before 1841 *One-stop shops: Jayne Shrimpton explores the history of department stores and their impact on shoppers and staff *Saving what they could carry: Canada’s Great Fire of 1922 *A may to remember: Keith Gregson tells the story of Britain's worst railway disaster, sidelined by its occurrence during WW1 *States of growth: Jill Morris on booming 19th century America *History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on parasols More Info
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Keith Gregson explores the life of Howard Marshall, a Lion, Barbarian and England International rugby half back. This book is supported by ten or more photographs/illustrations and is thoroughly and carefully referenced. More Info
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* Canine companions: Dogs have followed in our footsteps for many centuries. Jayne Shrimpton explores the historic relationship with man's best friend * A family of Friends: Antony Barlow explores the history of the Society of Friends through the prism of his own longstanding Quaker family * A 'Greatorex' by any other name: Keith Gregson puts TheGenealogist's powerful search engine to the test * Swindon: 175 years on track: Nicola Lisle explores the history of Swindon, and looks at how it was transformed from a tiny market town into a major railway centre * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on pyjamas * The Brits vs the Boers: Jill Morris on South African history More Info
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* The wreck of the SS London: 150 years ago this notorious shipping disaster claimed the lives of hundreds, as Simon Wills explains * A comedy heroine descended from a WW1 hero: Nick Thorne takes a look at the family of the well-loved and talented entertainer Victoria Wood * Finding other people's secrets: Jocelyn Robson explains how she investigated a fascinating story of a woman who faked her own death and reinvented herself * Stythies, handlooms and tenterhooks: Melvyn Jones delves into the working lives of home-based handloom weavers and metalworkers * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on jodhpurs * Great Scots online: Jill Morris explores the wealth of Scottish records available More Info
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* Home Front fashion: Jayne Shrimpton stitches together a seamless history of fashion economies during WW1 * Is it worth 'giving them a bell'?: Keith Gregson examines how late Victorian/early Edwardian telephone directories can help the family historian * 'Wrens': the women of the Royal Navy: Simon Wills looks at the history of the Women's Royal Naval Service * The Great British Chocolate Factory: We've loved chocolate in Britain for centuries - but how did we get the taste for it, and who was responsible? Nell Darby finds out* History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on smocks * Anglicans in the archives: Jill Morris looks at the history of the Church of England, and records of clergy available online More Info
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* Dressed to drive: Jayne Shrimpton explores the sartorial history of early motoring * Bringing opera to the masses: When theatre manager Richard D'Oyly Carte asked Gilbert and Sullivan to compose some music for him, it led to the creation of an entire opera company, as Nell Darby explains * Grandpa never mentioned that!: Nick Thorne discovered an unexpected literary connection to his family * History's forgotten workers: The 19th and early 20th centuries saw a great rise in clerical work. Richard Willis explores the largely overlooked work of legal clerks * Family fireworks: We explore actor Kit Harington's links to both the Gunpowder Plot and the king it tried to kill * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on underwear More Info
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* It's behind you! Nicola Lisle delves into the history of that great British theatrical institution, the pantomime * The pilot, MP and communist pioneer: Nick Thorne discovers the early aviator and first British communist MP Cecil L'Estrange Malone * A good word for Dr Johnson: Nell Darby looks at the history of dictionaries, and the pioneering work of Dr Samuel Johnson * Saving lives at sea: The RNLI's orange-and-blue lifeboats are a familiar sight on our coastline. Its brave crews have saved lives at sea for almost two centuries, writes Sue Wilkes * The village lock-up: They can still be seen in various locations around the country. But what was the village lockup, and why did they exist? Nell Darby peers through the bars * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on men's jewellery More Info
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* The near death of a community: Wayne Shepheard looks at the effect of major storms on communities in the past through the example of the Great Gale of 1824 * Was your ancestor a Royalist delinquent? Stuart A. Raymond explains the purpose of Royalist composition papers and how they can help researchers * The soldier, the priest and the count: Nick Thorne looks at one family with three remarkable leaders of men * The tale of a transported felon: Nell Darby investigates the brief crime and long punishment of a London hawker * Is there anybody there? Caroline Roope explores the heyday of spiritualism * History in the details: Shop workers' dress More Info
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* Smart at school: Jayne Shrimpton educates us on how school uniforms have developed over time * Automobile antics: Nell Darby takes us for a spin through the early years of motor car use * One ring to bind them: Nick Thorne uses online map tools to search for a stone burial chamber which moved 170 miles away from where its Neolithic builders originally put it * Offending women: The Calendars of Prisoners for Liverpool in the 1840s suggest that female offending wasn't as unusual as you might think €¦ Nell Darby investigates * A striking story: Dene Bebbington tells the tale of the match girls' strike * History in the details: Materials - leather (part 1) More Info
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* Inglorious mud: Caroline Roope explores the world of the mudlarks, people driven by poverty to scavenge along urban waterways * Rebuilding after the Great Fire: The response to London's 1666 fire included raising funds from across the country. Stuart A Raymond reveals some interesting records this generated * Listen to family stories... and then do the research: Nick Thorne builds his family story on firm ground using records readily available online * A father's jealousy: A case from Edwardian England illustrates how basic archival records don't always tell the whole story about a marriage. By Nell Darby * A tale of two towns: 100 years on from Leith's merger with Edinburgh, Nicola Lisle tells the story of the uneasy relationship between Scotland's capital city and its nearby port * History in the details: Materials - leather (part 2) More Info
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* Stocks and Bond: Nick Thorne addresses the records for where the stockbroker who created 007 once lived * The tormenting verdict of 'not proven': Stephen Wade looks into the Ardlamont mystery and talks to the alleged killer's great-grandson, David Potter * The Irristum Remedy Company: Nell Darby investigates a company run by a married couple, aimed at curing female ills - but they had their own problems * A tale of two cousins: Denise Bates digs into a family mystery and discovers one of her forebears played an important role in fraud investigations * Queen of Hearts: Caroline Roope marks the 200th anniversary of the death of Caroline of Brunswick, wife of George IV * History in the details: Materials - wool (part 7) More Info
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* Master of endurance: Marking the centenary of Ernest Shackleton's death this month, Caroline Roope tells the remarkable story of this great explorer * History's reckoning: From clay tablets to computers, Richard Willis explores the history of accounting and accountants * Crime among cops: We rely on our police forces to help us, solving crimes and making us feel safe. But there is a long history of scandal within the police ranks... By Nell Darby * Updating a Shetland ancestry: Keith Gregson examines some of the resources - old and new - useful for researching roots on the Scottish isles * A brewer's road to Damascus: Nick Thorne follows the story of Frederick Nicholas Charrington, the ex-brewer who built a temperance movement hall down the road from the brewery * History in the details: Materials - cotton (part 1) More Info
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