Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 8 (December 2013)
Issue 8 features: * Know your place: Jill Morris joins DYA’s team of writers with an extended feature on exploring your British local history * Picturing the past: Enjoy a new, free image archive online * The flying judges: Nell Darby concludes her series on the courts with a look at the Assizes * Jutland remembered: A Roll of Honour remembering those who died in WW1’s largest sea battle has now gone online * Place in focus: Explore Lancashire history and records * Books: A round up of recent publications * Break the brick walls: Advice on parish marriage records * What’s new in December: Key history-related events More Info
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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 74 (June 2019)
* The clerk's tale: Richard Willis looks at the growth of the white-collar workforce in the 19th century * The Theatre Girls' Club: Nell Darby explores how actress Virginia Compton helped out-of-work female performers busking on the streets of the capital at the start of WW1 * From one type of bank to another: Nick Thorne looks at the records for Wind in the Willows author Kenneth Grahame * Women and crime: What kind of crimes have women committed, and what sort of women were they? Nell Darby offers some suggestions for further reading * What do we really know about our families? Heather Welford looks at family myths and the need to research them carefully to establish what really happened * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton introduces a new series of columns about civilian occupational uniforms More Info
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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 75 (July 2019)
* Secrets from the grave: Simon Wills explores the genealogical value of our ancestors' headstones * Number One London: TheGenealogist's Map Explorer shows London landmarks in changing environment, writes Nick Thorne * Messing about on the river: Jayne Shrimpton sets sail in the first of two articles about leisure activities associated with water - this time, our rivers and canals * George, the habitual criminal: Nell Darby lays down the law about the history of repeat offenders * Drinking with the Georgians: Phil Wood enjoys an 18th century tipple * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton looks at male servants' livery More Info
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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 76 (August 2019)
* Unreliable records: Kim Fleet gets to the truth about why our ancestors lied on official documents * The plight of old age: Denise Bates explores how older workers eventually obtained state support: the old-age pension * The changing fortunes of a workhouse: From scandal to modern hospital: Kate Hollis tells the fascinating story of Bromley's Farnborough workhouse * Finding my earliest home: Keith Gregson reports on a personal discovery made thanks to TheGenealogist's landrelated records * A foreign affair: The crimes of €˜foreigners' have always titillated the British reading public, as Nell Darby reports * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on maids' uniforms More Info
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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 77 (September 2019)
* Tracing the turnkeys: Stephen Wade explains the challenges of tracking down ancestors who worked in our prisons -many of whom were women * All the fun of the fair: Fairs have been a part of society since medieval times. Caroline Roope takes us on a spin through their history * Looking after policemen's children: The Metropolitan and City Police Orphanage helped home and educate the offspring of dead police officers, as Nell Darby explains * The wrong side of the blanket? Nick Thorne finds new Norfolk parish records on TheGenealogist can reveal illegitimate children and who their parents had been * Full steam ahead: Jayne Shrimpton returns to the water to give us a history of steamboats * History in the details: Firefighters' uniforms More Info
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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 78 (October 2019)
* League v Union: Gaynor Haliday looks back 150 years to October 1869, when men who sought to introduce a new system of elementary education for the working classes clashed with the groups who already provided it * Educating women: This month marks the 150th anniversary of Girton College, Cambridge - the first women's college at the university. What can the census tell us about the college and those associated with it? Nell Darby explores * A walk through the history of Eel Pie Island: Nick Thorne takes a ramble through records relating to this Thames island * Disciplined until death: Corporal punishment was part of school life until relatively recent times - despite proof that it could kill those it was inflicted on, writes Nell Darby * History in the details: Police uniforms More Info
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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 79 (November 2019)
* Celebrating 150 years of Cutty Sark: Nicola Lisle explores the history of the much-loved tea and wool clipper Cutty Sark, which was launched 150 years ago this month * Mr Elston's artistes: Stephen Wade describes an unusual source available when researching theatrical ancestors * A rich resource for the regiments: Nick Thorne uses the Regimental Records on TheGenealogist to learn more about a brave officer's war * The Thorncliffe riot: Denise Bates tells the story of an early miners' strike which was remembered long afterwards * Travel, tourism and theft: Nell Darby takes us on a journey through the new types of crime which grew with the changing transport network * History in the details: Bus crew uniforms More Info
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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 80 (December 2019)
* All dressed up: With Christmas coming, one of the many festivities where people have often dressed up for fun, Jayne Shrimpton explores the history of fancy dress down the ages * The Rochdale Pioneers: 175 years ago this month, a group of individuals in the north-west of England established one of the first co-operatives in the country. Who were they, and what did they want to achieve? Nell Darby investigates * Sky high progress: Nick Thorne tells the story of the son of a ladies underclothing manufacturer who pioneered long distance flight in a flimsy biplane * Field of the Yard: One detective from the Metropolitan Police in the 19th century, writes Nell Darby, captured the imagination of the press, the public, and one novelist by the name of Dickens... * A life on the ocean wave: Life in the Royal Navy was not all rotten meat and weevily biscuits, says Gregory Parker * History in the details: Tram crew uniforms More Info
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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 81 (January 2020)
* The secret worshippers: Stuart A. Raymond explores researching Catholic recusants through his detailed study of a parish in Wiltshire * More than just scrawls on walls: Is graffiti a mark of disrespect or social comment? Denise Bates looks at its long history * Tales of the Cartaret dynasty: Nick Thorne follows up a chance finding in the tithe records, leading him to the story of a Royalist privateer commemorated in America * The child-snatchers: Playing to our insecurities both as children and parents, kidnapping remains a rare but particularly scary crime, writes Nell Darby * Motherhood and madness in the Victorian era: Lorraine Schofield explores the gap between the ideal of womanhood in the 19th century and the reality of mental illness * History in the details: Railway staff uniforms More Info
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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 82 (February 2020)
* Skin in the game: Jayne Shrimpton explores the history of the fur trade and the work of furriers and related occupations * The early papers: Paul Matthews has the headlines about the burgeoning world of newspapers in the 18th century * Finding the bad egg: How hard can it be to find a criminal ancestor in the digital archives - and do we all have one? * Gather ye records why ye may! Nick Thorne finds out about the Herricks of Leicester * A sense of place: Chris Paton explains what Irish land records reveal * History in the details: Nursing uniforms More Info
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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 83 (March 2020)
* Storehouses of history: Caroline Roope delves into the development of museums and the showcasing of history to the public * The story of a forgotten address: Paul Matthews shows what can be discovered about an address that no longer exists, in this case in Adelaide Place near London Bridge * All aboard for the Swindon Trip: Dene Bebbington takes us on a journey through the history of a popular leisure excursion for railway staff * How to punish the 'feeble minded': In 1952, a horrific murder in Scotland led to debate about how offenders with learning disabilities should be punished, writes Nell Darby * Educate yourself on the records! Keith Gregson has recently discovered the usefulness of TheGenealogist's Education search engine and shares some of his discoveries with readers * History in the details: Fisherfolk dress More Info
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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 84 (April 2020)
* Missing from the census: Why were some of your ancestors apparently not enumerated in a census, and what can you do about it? Simon Wills offers some expert advice * Fashion's fools: Jayne Shrimpton looks at some of the stranger and more frivolous trends in fashion down the ages * The sibling suicides: Bloomsbury in London once had an unenviable reputation for suicide. Nell Darby reports * The killing of Sergeant Hately: Stephen Wade tells a tale of danger to law and order at the Alnwick hiring fair * The finder of wonderful things: Nick Thorne discovers the records for the artist's son who discovered a pharaoh * History in the details: Mine workers' dress More Info
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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 85 (May 2020)
* Fashion after WW2: Jayne Shrimpton marks the 75th anniversary of VE Day from a sartorial point of view * The archives: empty but still at work: Former archivist Mary Ann Davison celebrates Local and Community History Month amid the challenges of the coronavirus lockdown * A home for the smack boys: Many workhouse boys were apprenticed to work on fishing smacks. Nell Darby explores * The case of the charming man: Joshua Casswell was a barrister at 40 murder trials, with some strong views * Unconventional lives: Nick Thorne delves into the archives to demonstrate that our forebears had complicated lives * History in the details: Factory/mill workers' dress More Info
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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 86 (June 2020)
* Tracing your prisoner ancestors: Stephen Wade explains the detective work required to track down prison inmates * Visit a virtual show! This month the Family History Show is going online - here's a run-down, plus Keith Gregson reveals an insider's view of being on the expert panel * Not to be found in the archives: Lauren Alex O'Hagan tells us about how book inscriptions can be used to research our family history * Did Cork-Leg John get away with murder? Nell Darby investigates another criminal case from the archives * Undercover shoppers: Denise Bates looks into the history of covered markets and shopping arcades * History in the details: Building trade attire More Info
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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 87 (July 2020)
* Welcome to Clubland: Phil Wood enters the world of the gentleman's club in its 18th and 19th century heyday * A club for the working man: In the 19th century, could club's they also offer a means for the working man to improve himself? Nell Darby peeks behind the door * The road to Butlin's: From drapers who became bankers and bakers who became showmen, Nick Thorne traces the family of a holiday camp impresario * Who shall be a constable? In the past, there were rules as to who could, and couldn't, take on the often thankless task of the local constable. Nell Darby explains * A daughter's defence: Female physicians have been sidelined throughout history but one, Mary Trye, escaped from the margins. Sara Read tells her story * History in the details: Smiths', butchers' and bakers' attire More Info
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