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Red Cross POW Records
The Red Cross POW records are now digitized and available online to search. For many family historians these records complete the story of their ancestors who served in WWI.
Read MoreWW1 Postcards
WW1 Postcards a rich resource and a visual opportunity, find out how to discover and use the 20K plus postcards on Europeana for the period 1914-1918 and muse over how you might dig-out what ephemera you might have in your loft or research boxes that might help you and others connect and make that next step n researching your project wehther for your family history social, local or special interest project. In the first year of the 100th centenary of WW1 will there ever be such an opportunity to explore and discover what happened and better understand those momentous events?
Read MoreOperation War Diary
Operation War Diary is a crowd sourced project to classify the WWI diaries of the British Army on the Western Front. A project involving the Imperial War Museum and the National Archive.
Read MoreResources for Research Pipe rolls of the Exchequor.
Sharing history resources. Sharing resources available for open access research and analysis in your history and humanities project is part of what we aim to do in conjunction with a Digital Gazetteer we are actively researching and developing as part of the Hampshire History Project. When we find a resource that maybe useful to others…
Read MoreRoyal Arms In Church
Royal Arms can be found in many English parish churches but are easy to overlook. The question is what was their purpose and what can we learn about English history by studying them?
Read MoreThe Agricultural Revolution
What was the Agricultural Revolution and would the Industrial Revolution have taken place without it?
Read MoreAnatomy Act 1832
Body Snatching could make your body worth more dead than alive and the Anatomy Act was one way of starting toa ddress this dreadful and workhouse Regime fuelled fear by legislating to protect the corpses of the poor, this act lasts into the 20th Century so it was certainly significant well-beyond it’s original foundation,,,
Read MoreThe Workhouse System Poor Law Amendment Act 1834
The Workhouse System was a radical solution to a problem of immense scale in mid C19th Britain. Tory landowners and Whig economists for once voted together, anxious in the face of increasing revolt and disturbances to preserve their respective positions.
Read MoreWorkhouse and Poor Law Data.
What Poor Law and workhouse records can you use to add contextual colour to your family history? How can you find out more about the events that shaped our pauper ancestors. How many of your family were in the workhouse?
Read MoreMedieval Names 1450-1600
A look at a website drawing together a list of Medieval names, fascinating for the family historian
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