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
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
Product Code: DYAP025
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A4 softback 46 pages There are two armies in Britain - the regular or professional army which was first established after the restoration of Charles 11 in 1661 and the part-time army which is a much older force tracing its roots back to the Anglo Saxon Ffyrd of King Alfred. This part-time force has, at various times, consisted of many different types of soldiers from the straightforwardly na...More Info
Edited by Gwen Davis. 1st edition (December 2000). A lavishly illustrated book containing a number of articles about different aspects of the KGL during the Napoleonic Wars. The KGL was the Hanoverian Army in Exile 1806-1815 and was part of the British Army. The articles cover the KGL's time in UK, their involvement in the war, especially in the Mediterranean, and examples of research into individ...More Info
Edited by Gwen Davis. 1st edition (2006). A further lavishly illustrated book containing a number of different articles about aspects of the KGL during the Napoleonic Wars. The KGL was the Hanoverian Army in exile 1806-1815 and was part of the British Army. A5, 96pp.
Contents: The Dewdney Family and East Surrey Mills; Dad's Army; Air Raid Precautions; Wapses Lodge Roundabout; Tightening the Green Belt in Caterham; Men of the Trams; Memories of WWII in Caterham; PCC Wills at the Family Records Centre; St Anne's College, Sanderstead; The Bombing of the Caterham Motor Company; Francis Henry Atkins -'Caterham Boy' to 'Home Boy'; Donald Howard and the Bunce Brother...More Info
This transcription of the Parish Registers of Holy Trinity Church, Chester, from 1532 to 1837, was originally compiled and published in 1914 by L.M.Farrell, Rector of the Church. The Registers of Baptisms, Marriages and Burials are fully indexed for Surnames and Professions. There are also indexes for Trades and Professions, Titled People, Army and Navy Personnel, Diseases and Causes of Death, and...More Info