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
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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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* 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
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the history of education from Medieval times to now, including charity schools, ragged schools, military schools etc
A 'Census' of West Wycombe Inhabitants taken in 1760, plus all men aged 16-60 not in the military able to defend their homes from a potential invasion by Napoleon
Contents: The last years of the Byron Family Estate; 'Live in Surrey Free From Worry' - the Southern Railway's 'The Country at London's Door'; Caterham Manor in 1865; What the Papers Said; Florence Harding - 97 Years Young; Blechingley Surveyors' Book 1814 - 1836; Charles Day and Charles Dickens; Peter's Pastime - A Collection of Magnificent Hand-made models; Mrs Violet Mattock - one of Caterham's...More Info
Caterham Recruiting Day 1915 Commemoration; Shop Fronts and Shop Displays from the Past; The Caterham Golf Club and the Kenley Golf Club; Chapel Bank (Chelsham), Adventures of a Stock-Checker; Over 100 Years of Shopping in Coulsdon - IV; Post at Caterham Barracks; 'Burntwood House', Caterham and its place in Military History; Jack's Barbers, Whyteleafe; E H Attree of 'Gamelands', Chaldon; Two loca...More Info
**New publication - Launched May 2015** Searchable index to Anglican (Church of England) burials in mainland Hampshire for the period 1838-1865. Excluding the Isle of Wight but including Aldershot Military Cemetery and the Royal Marine Church, Eastney whose registers are held at TNA, Kew. Incorporated in the database is a revised version of HCD010 (Burials 1838-1841) which includes...More Info