Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 6 (October 2013)

Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 6 (October 2013)

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Issue 6 features: * Brought to court: Nell Darby begins a new series on courts and their records with a look at Quarter Sessions * Trade secrets: Explore the largest searchable collection of apprenticeship records online * The family killer: Paul Matthews on the ravages of typhus * Roots in many places: Your introductory guide to tracing roots in the Caribbean, by expert Guy Grannum * The skill of search: Maximise your online research techniques * Books: A round up of recent publications * Place in focus: Explore the history of Leeds * Scourge of the seas: Britain’s history of piracy dates back to medieval times – and many pirates were leading figures * Break the brick walls: Wills after 1858 More Info

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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 51 (July 2017)

Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 51 (July 2017)

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* Jane Austen and Regency fashion: Jayne Shrimpton explores Regency style and how it has become intimately associated with the novelist who died 200 years ago * Courting success: Nicola Lisle delves into the history of the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships, which celebrates its 140th anniversary this year * The case of the author's family: Nick Thorne manages to explore Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's family line despite the variation in names used in the records * Full steam ahead: Harry Cunningham goes for a ride into Britain's steam-filled past as he discovers the impact of the railway on our Victorian ancestors' lives * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on shifts, petticoats and slips More Info

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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 52 (August 2017)

Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 52 (August 2017)

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* 'Put it in the diary': Ruth A Symes looks at what our ancestors' appointment diaries can reveal * What's in a name?: Denise Bates explores the trends and traditions of Victorian forenames * Changing names: Nick Thorne unravels a family of name changes and finds a black sheep exiled for his crime * Here is the news: Margaret Powling surveys the history of newspapers, and remembers her own family's role in the trade * Woodcuts and witches: Jon Crabb explores how developments in publishing influenced the early modern fixation with witches * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on underwear More Info

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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 53 (September 2017)

Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 53 (September 2017)

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* The mystery of Branwell's death: Ruth A Symes explores why Branwell Brontë's death certificate doesn't fully explain his death * New records from the 'Far North': Keith Gregson explores the Northumberland parish records recently added to TheGenealogist website * A touch of glass: Daniel Hewitt explores the glass etching trade through the prism of a talented ancestor * A bloody history: Life in the Caribbean could be brutal and extremely gruelling for our ancestors and far worse for the original native tribes who lived there, writes Harry Cunningham * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on underwear More Info

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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 54 (October 2017)

Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 54 (October 2017)

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* Britain and the Bolsheviks: Colin Ellson traces the North Russian Expeditionary Force's contribution to the civil war in support of the White Russians * Dastardly attack on Her Majesty: Nick Thorne investigates the most successful of the numerous attempts to harm Queen Victoria * Cosy comforts: Jayne Shrimpton's history of hand-knitting * The trial of the century? 180 years ago this year, a trial was held which has resonated through history. And yet, as Denise Bates explains, it was entirely fictional * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on underwear More Info

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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 55 (November 2017)

Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 55 (November 2017)

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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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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 56 (December 2017)

Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 56 (December 2017)

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* Poacher vs gamekeeper: Maybe your agricultural ancestor had another side to him? Simon Wills explores the secretive but risky life of the poacher and his arch enemy * Crackers about Christmas: Nick Thorne looks at some of the Victorian people behind the Christmas traditions we enjoy to this day * Painting the nation blue: Harry Cunningham investigates the 17th century origins of one of the oldest and arguably most successful political movements in the world: the Tories * The forgotten soldier: Daniel Hewitt explores the life of his great-great-uncle, who saw long years of military service * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on crinoline More Info

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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 57 (January 2018)

Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 57 (January 2018)

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* Emigration of the poor: Barbara J Starmans explores the role and work of emigration societies in the 19th century * The Victorian beat: Gaynor Haliday investigates the policeman's lot in the 19th century * The ultimate 'Bentley Boy': Nick Thorne follows the family records trail for the glamorous Captain Woolf Barnato * A night at the circus: Sharon Brookshaw celebrates the 250th anniversary of the British circus with a historical flight across the big top * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on hose, stockings and socks More Info

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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 58 (February 2018)

Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 58 (February 2018)

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* Vinegar Valentines: Valentine's Day hasn't always been a box of chocolates - Denise Bates explores the dark side of the festival of love, as well as its commercial history * Across the sea to Ireland: Melvyn Jones reveals the details of an early business trip between South Yorkshire and County Wicklow in Ireland * The birds without eggs: Nick Thorne investigates the family behind a favourite British brand * Safety first - or not at all: The Victorian era saw several disasters occur in theatres - caused by poorly built or cramped buildings, as Nell Darby explains * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on men's headwear More Info

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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 59 (March 2018)

Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 59 (March 2018)

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* Selling the past: Paul Matthews investigates the history of advertisements in the 19th and early 20th centuries * Nanna's wartime postcards: Keith Gregson reports on the remarkable survival of more than a hundred wartime postcards sent to his wife's grandmother during WW1 * Reformatory life: Nell Darby investigates the history of reformatory schools, in the first of a regular feature on criminal history * Family snapshots: Jayne Shrimpton investigates amateur photography and the unique view of the past it offers * Century of schisms: The early modern period was one of the most religiously and politically charged eras in English history, as Harry Cunningham explains * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on women's headwear More Info

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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 60 (April 2018)

Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 60 (April 2018)

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* Northern lights: 150 years after the first fully public meeting on women's suffrage, Sue Wilkes explores the pioneering work of suffragists in Manchester * Through adversity to the stars: Nick Thorne celebrates the April centenary of the birth of the Royal Air Force * Penitent women: Female penitentiaries were designed to make new women of the €˜fallen', as Nell Darby explains * Raiders on the sea: Did your ancestor earn a living by plundering enemy ships? Simon Wills explores the world of privateers, and how to research them * Food of the gods: Margaret Powling offers a delicious history of chocolate * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on bags and purses More Info

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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 61 (May 2018)

Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 61 (May 2018)

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* Wash day every week: In the 19th and early 20th centuries, wash day was a major domestic ritual affecting the entire household, as Jayne Shrimpton explains * The colour mauve: Nick Thorne traces the Perkin family's progress from apprentice leatherworkers to top scientists * Turns of the wheel: Sharon Brookshaw explores the various revolutions in the relationship between cycling and society * Read all about it: The Illustrated Police News brought Victorians a diet of sensationalist crime, but its appeal to the working-classes was a cause of concern, says Nell Darby * Enlightened times: Harry Cunningham explores Scotland's intellectual, economic and cultural revolution from the 1700s * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on handkerchiefs More Info

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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 62 (June 2018)

Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 62 (June 2018)

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* A fate worse than death: Michelle Higgs investigates the notorious conditions on the prison hulks for convicts sentenced to transportation * Oxford's education pioneers: On the 140th anniversary of the Association for the Education of Women in Oxford, Nicola Lisle explores the fight for women's higher education * Some Yorkshire sporting heroes: Keith Gregson celebrates this month's Family History Show in York by examining an interesting corner of Yorkshire's heritage * The Justice of the Peace: In the 18th century, legal writer Dr Richard Burn revolutionised the work of magistrates, by writing a manual for them, as Nell Darby explains * Eighty years of caring: Nicola Lisle explores the history of the Women's Voluntary Service, which is marking its 80th anniversary this year * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on gloves More Info

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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 63 (July 2018)

Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 63 (July 2018)

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* Women in schooling: Gaynor Haliday takes a look at the history of women teachers and the challenges they faced * The Wills Forgery Trials: Nick Thorne considers a case of forged records that had a lawyer wrongly transported for life * Huskar: a mining tragedy: Denise Bates tells the sad story of one of Victorian Britain's worst (and least known) disasters * Reconstructing Sarah Ann: The bare bones of an individual's life, as recorded in the census, can hide the three-dimensional character, explains Nell Darby * Boom, bust and Balfour: In the late 19th century, an economic crisis exposed the unscrupulous business practices of MP Jabez Balfour. Harry Cunningham investigates * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on fans More Info

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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 64 (August 2018)

Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 64 (August 2018)

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* Life and work at the beach: Jayne Shrimpton dips a toe into the history of bathing machines, changing tents and beach huts * Murder in the rookeries: Nick Thorne investigates a gruesome death in St Giles, London * Sniffing out the past: Ruth A Symes considers some olfactory routes into family history * Going for gold: The 19th century saw gold discovered in America and Canada - and people flocked from Britain to find their fortune in the goldfields. Nell Darby digs deeper * The two clairvoyants who failed to tell their own fortunes: An Edwardian trial used legislation from larceny to witchcraft to prosecute a husband and wife palm-reading team, writes Nell Darby * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on watches More Info

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