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
* 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
Product Code: DYAP056
* Rinking: an Edwardian craze: Roller skating as a leisure activity has a surprisingly long history. Jayne Shrimpton investigates this pastime, which peaked in the Edwardian age * La Belle Sauvage: Nick Thorne visits a coaching inn where the printing presses disturbed the guests * 'Dollar Princesses': Ruth A Symes looks at what our ancestors made of visiting American women in the late 19th and early 20th centuries * Nursing the nation's heroes: Royal Victoria Hospital was Britain's largest ever military hospital. Simon Wills investigates its history and its patients * The Ratho Murder: When the 'respectable' George Bryce suspected that a local servant had told his fiancee to break off their union, he exacted a horrible revenge, says Nell Darby * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on hair ornaments More Info
Product Code: DYAP069
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Including Cemetery Plan and Indexes. Now also on CD as Brighton Preston Barracks (SSX-SXE87).
This book covers the period 1850 to the present day, reviewing the forces of the Militia based for 50 years at Barnet Barracks, the Rifle Volunteers and the Territorial Forces. The timeline details events from 1661 to 2019. There are maps, photographs and biographies of notable characters. 76 pages A4 format
Oliver Nugent, Ireland’s longest-serving divisional commander of the Great War, led the Ulster Division on the western front from 1915 to 1918. That period saw the operational transformation of the British army and his own development as a general, from the heroic but doomed assault at Thiepval in July 1916, through the triumph of Messines, the heartbreaking failure at Ypres and the mixed succes...More Info
Alternative sources to census and parish registers. Military records WW1, Trade Union records, directories, electoral registers; contacting birth parents or missing cousins.
Records of gentry, clergy, lawyers, doctors, teachers, military and naval officers, EIC officials.