An introduction to the tools and processes of researching your past. This book will also help take your research to the level beyond simple facts of birth, marriage and death, with chapters on occupation, migration and military service. By Karen Foy. Paperback with 223 pages... More Info
Birth, Marriage and Death Records are an essential resource for family historians, and this handbook is an authoritative introduction to them. It explains the original motives for registering these milestones in individual lives, describes how these record-keeping systems evolved, and shows how they can be explored and interpreted. Authors David Annal and Audrey Collins guide researchers through the difficulties they may encounter in understanding the documentation. They recount the history... More Info
Product Code: BK6419
Simon Fowler outlines the course of the fighting around the city and he introduces the many historical resources that you can use to explore the history for yourself. *A practical guide to researching soldiers who served at Ypres during the First World War *Concise account of the three principal Ypres battles, including Passchendaele *Identifies and explains the key sources including The National Archives, Imperial War Museum and Commonwealth War Graves Commission *Recommends useful websit... More Info
Product Code: BK6472
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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