Posts by HLB

Free Newspaper Archives

Contemporary newspaper articles of historic events are an absolutely riveting read and give a different perspective to the lives and times of our ancestors.

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Women and Suffrage

Women’s suffrage affected generation after generation of women. It took thirty years from the formation of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Society to the Representation of the People Act in 1928 for all women to have an equal right to vote in the UK

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Agas Map of London, Online and Interactive

Historical maps are beautiful works of art and to see The Agas map of London on line and interactive, thanks to the work of the University of Victoria Canada with the permission of the London Metropolitan archive, is a real bonus to historians and an excellent piece of work.

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