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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Records of peerage and gentry, clergymen, lawyers, doctors, teachers, army, navy, marine officers etc.
Contains the following: Militia Ballot Lists Kesteven 1824: These cover villages in the Wapentakes of Aveland, Beltisloe, Langoe, Loveden, Ness and Winnibriggs, & Threo, plus the Boroughs of Grantham and Stamford. The lists give the name, occupation, age and any infirmity or exemption of men aged 18 to 45, for each village. Some lists may not have all of this information. Royal South Linc...More Info
Contains references to Lincolnshire men joining the Metropolitan Police Service, starting in 1824 Sources include service and pension, plus miscellaneous records. The Hue and Cry Police Gazette for the years 1830, 1838, 1839, 1877, 1879 & 1884. This paper was used by the police, army and other authorities, searching for criminals, deserters and other miscreants. Full descriptions of those bein...More Info
Tells the story on a daily basis, from the threat of German invasion during the hot summer of 1939, through radar research and the secret war, to the arrival of the US Army and the cross-channel sea and air armada on D-Day. 336 pages. Hardback.
In 1861 an Irish-born explorer emerged from the Australian outback, sole survivor of the country's greatest expedition. John King from Moy, Co. Tyrone, had crossed the arid continent and discovered tracts of rich, fertile land. With eight men dead, King's triumph was one of the world's great feats of endurance and thousands gathered to crown him Australia's first hero ... Yet within weeks the hand...More Info