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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 7 (November 2013)
Issue 7 features: * The back-up brigades: The largest collection of militia records online has just been released - here’s the background * Petty crimes?: Nell Darby continues her series on the courts with a look at the Petty Sessions * Grande dame of the seas: We explore the history and heritage of the legendary steamship SS Great Britain * Ladies with many layers: Lucy Adlington discusses women's fashion on the eve of World War One * Place in focus: Explore Lancashire history and records * Books: A round up of recent publications * Break the brick walls: Jenny Jones on parish birth records * What's new in November: Key history-related events More Info
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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 9 (January 2014)
Issue 9 features: *The bonds that last: Jenny Jones explains marriage licences, allegations, bonds and banns records *Trades in the trenches: New online data reveals the roles of teachers, engineers and lawyers in World War One *Hair hunting: How beards can reveal your ancestors' lives! *'A nervy lot': Kathy Chater tells an extraordinary family tale of madness and strife, all revealed by papers found on eBay *Party like it's 1853: Learn some Victorian parlour games! *Place in focus: Explore Kentish history and records *Books: A round up of recent publications *Break the brick walls: Advice on parish burial records *What's on in January: Key history-related events More Info
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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 10 (February 2014)
Issue 10 features: * Home of industry: Nell Darby looks into working from home * Secret liaisons: Jenny Jones explains Fleet marriages * A wealth of wills: Wills available online have much to offer * Place in focus: Explore Sheffield history and records * This month: WW2 memories for National Storytelling Week * Books: A round up of recent publications * Break the brick walls: Advice on apprenticeship records More Info
Product Code: DYAP010
Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 11 (March 2014)
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
Product Code: DYAP011
Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 12 (April 2014)
Issue 12 features: * Powering the past: Technology and the Industrial Revolution * One place, many faces: What is a one-place study? * Following the plot: A major collection of tithe records online * Class conscious: The diaries of a Victorian school * Paris of the West: Explore San Francisco in the late 19th century * Books: A round-up of recent publications * Place in focus: Explore Southampton’s history and records * Break the brick walls: Finding occupational records More Info
Product Code: DYAP012
Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 13 (May 2014)
Issue 13 features: * A place for everyone?: Parish settlement orders explored * Grow more branches: 500,000 more parish records go online * Kip and kin: Ruth Symes on the secrets of the ancestral bed * When drama meets reality: Explore the roots of stars in the BBC’s new World War One nursing drama * Lumped together: How did people sleep in the workhouse? * Empty pockets: Records of bankruptcy and insolvency * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on aprons More Info
Product Code: DYAP013
Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 14 (June 2014)
Issue 14 features: * Going the extra mile: Jenny Jones explains the history and advantages of ‘Dade registers’ * Warriors in your DNA?: DNA research into Bannockburn * PoW records go online: A major new WW1 resource * It’s all in the cards: The history and etiquette of calling cards * Not a happy lot?: Police life and work in Victorian Cheshire * A life on (or behind) stage: Theatrical records explored * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on canes and sticks * Place in focus: Northampton More Info
Product Code: DYAP014
Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 15 (July 2014)
Issue 15 features: * Tracing the tiger: Paul Matthews looks at the many mind altering drugs our ancestors might have fallen prey to * Lest we forget...: The WW1 centenary begins * Family reflections: Ruth Symes on the history of mirrors * Were they in India?: A useful research avenue to explore * From store to war: The sad fate of many Harrods staff in WW1 * Graphic conflict: WW1 explored through infographics * Finding the freemasons: Jill Morris enters a secret world * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on sunglasses * What’s on * Books * Place in focus: Wiltshire More Info
Product Code: DYAP015
Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 16 (August 2014)
Issue 16 features: * Living on leftovers: Nell Darby explores the forgotten practice of gleaning after the harvest * Fit for a king: The new Richard III visitor centre in Leicester * Justly honoured: Military Medal records from WW1 go online * Short o’ pobbies: Lancashire dialect and the Cotton Famine * Hopping through history: The hop pickers of SE England * To Botany Bay and beyond: Convict transportation records * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on straw boaters More Info
Product Code: DYAP016
Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 17 (September 2014)
Issue 17 features: * Scotshots: Jayne Shrimpton investigates photography and photographers in Scotland * Scotland remembers: New heritage plaques unveiled * The utmost bravery: Distinguished Conduct Medals online * Women in war: Kirsty Gray reveals how WW1 affected women and led to major changes in society * Female tommies: Women's nursing services in WW1 * Finding freedom: Records of freemen and burgesses * History in the details: How blazer jackets developed * Place in focus: Staffordshire More Info
Product Code: DYAP017
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
Product Code: DYAP018
Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 19 (November 2014)
Issue 19 features: * Life's a lottery: the long history of state-backed gambling * Plots from the past: old maps to buy, with a special offer * Fresh from the front: WW1 newspapers explored * Saturday night soldiers: WW1 Territorial Army records online * Seeking asylums?: records of mental illness go digital * Stall stories: old pictures of London's East End markets * "Weak in intellect": the sad story of people with cognitive disabilities who were sent to the workhouse * The herald calls: mediaeval visitations investigated * History in the details: shawls More Info
Product Code: DYAP019
Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 20 (December 2014)
Issue 20 features: * Called to the bar: Phil Wood samples the variety of drinking establishments in Georgian times * Mentioned in dispatches: essential WW1 records now online * Having the last word: Kirsty Gray investigates epitaphs * The toughest scrum: Keith Gregson looks into a Sunderland rugby team, 12 members of which served in World War One * Christmas behind locked doors: Kate Tyte reveals that the festive season in workhouses and asylums wasn’t all bad * The cunning folk: the history of witchcraft in Essex * Lore of the lawyers: Jill Morris tracks down legal records * History in the details: scarves and mufflers More Info
Product Code: DYAP020
Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 21 (January 2015)
Issue 21 features: * Parliament and the people: Nell Darby looks back at the people’s relationship with Parliament, now 750 years old * The hidden treasures of gravestones: Nick Thorne explains * Revolutionary biscuits: A slice of Dublin history revealed * Seeking out the pros: Keith Gregson explores what can be learned about professional sporting ancestors in online records * The rise and fall of the Darfield Flier: Michael Rochford reveals an interesting story of a Victorian cyclist * Archive heaven: Melvyn Jones highlights the treasures in the archives of our great landed estates * From Company to the Raj: Jill Morris explores British India * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on muffs More Info
Product Code: DYAP021
Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 22 (February 2015)
Issue 22 features: * The sweet smell of history: Jayne Shrimpton sniffs out the interesting social history of perfume * A rogue in the records: Gill Hoffs on a convict who made his fortune in the goldfields of Australia, only to lose it again * The Mulberry madam: Another convict transportation story * Found in the muniments room: Melvyn Jones highlights more treasures in the archives of our great landed estates * All good sports: Keith Gregson explores what can be learned about amateur sporting ancestors in online records * Plying the waters: Waterborne trade in Somerset explored * Calling your ancestors: Jill Morris looks at old phone books * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on raincoats More Info
Product Code: DYAP022
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