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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Not just criminals but the whole fabric of life, including poor relief, bastardy, planning matters, trading standards, public nuisances, neighbours, apprentices, licensing, military pensions, local taxation. Church attendance. Quarter, Petty Sessions and Assizes.
Over the years, people have told me that they have completed their family history - my answer to that is ... you never finish because there is always more to discover. When I began writing these guides to discovering your family history, I thought it would all go into one relatively small book - how wrong I was! As I worked on the first book, it became obvious that a second volume would be neede...More Info
Personal, Hunting and Military 1600-1760 - dagge pistols, birding guns, long bows, cross bows to swords, Brown Bess muskets, raising regiments in the 1688 Glorious Revolution and militia in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars 1792-1815
Version 3 of this comprehensive set of records for Portland has now been released. Note that the CD version does not run correctly on Apple Mac computers using operating systems above 10.4 (Tiger). However copying the files from the CD to the computer hard drive, and running from there, does enable everything to run correctly. The CD is a most valuable resource for anyone with Portland ances...More Info
Lists of local volunteer militia 1794-1795 and 1803-1808. (Published by Sheffield & District FHS). For other military records see Attestation & Discharge Index 1760-1840 under Miscellaneous data on CD ROM. (Published by Sheffield & District FHS).