The Disaster of the Second Fleet 1789
Any settlers of New South Wales from the second fleet, must have been a hardy lot to survive the appalling journey they endured. Just what went wrong?
Read MoreThe Golden Hind
The Golden Hind will be part of Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee flotilla down the Thames, what impact did Drakes voyage have on the nation just over 430 years ago?
Read MoreCadgwith and Fishing a dangerous occupation
Fishing a dangerous occupation providing the life and soul of this Cornish Village, a community evolving and linked by the life and hard times and price paid for living that life…subject of BBC Series in March 2012…glimpse life in a fishing village…
Read MoreLord Lovat & the History of Mapmaking
The first detailed maps of Britain arose out of a need to fulfil a military purpose. The Battle of Culloden proved to be a turning point in the history of British map making
Read MoreThe National Archives ‘Hack Day’
National Archive ‘hack day’, for web designers and developers, gather, exchange and think imaginatively about making use of National Archive documents
Read MoreOld English Place Names – How do they just disappear?
Where can you go to find places that seem to have just ‘disappeared’ from the maps of Great Britain?
Read MoreWhat an Intriguing Find a Cryptic Note Charles 1st Cromwell?
What an intriguing Find? Can you help solve this conundrum? A wonderful document with a cryptic note and possible cypher with references to Cromwell Charles 1st and the King of France, is this something you have knowledge of? if so please do contact us so we can help the kind people who brought this important…
Read MoreGoogle Earth
Google Earth for Family History
Google Earth is free and downloadable, it is emebedded in this page but will only run and display, if it is installed on your PC. Here we are providing a demonstration sample similar to what we have used at the WDYTYA Live 2012 Show in London. You can download the files and click on the…
Read MoreTruth and History
Data is not information and information is not knowledge, where does that leave amateur historians as the avalanche of data flows towards us?
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