June 2023 edition of Discover Your Ancestors Periodical worth a read

 

Discover Your Ancestors Periodical June 2023
Discover Your Ancestors Periodical June 2023

In the June 2023 issue of Discover Your Ancestors periodical you can read the following excellent articles:

– What do we think they’ll discover? Who Do You Think You Are? is back on TV this month. Andrew Chapman introduces the new series
– The fasting girl: Stephen Wade looks at the phenomenon of the Welsh fasting girl, Sarah Jacob, whose story dominated the press for much of 1869
– Meet Kitch: unflappable Spitfire pilot: In 1980 Nick Thorne met a man on a yacht in the English Channel. Thanks to online RAF records, here is his story
– On the trail of George Orwell: Richard Willis follows the life and adventures of this giant of letters, born 120 years ago
– Making the censuses crystal clear: We explore how the latest technology can improve your research
– The forgotten rural martyrs: 150 years ago this month, 16 women – two of them with babies – were imprisoned. Keith Laybourn commemorates the Ascott Martyrs
– History in the details: Picturing fashion c.1710

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February 2023 edition of Discover Your Ancestors Online Magazine is Out!

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The February 2023 edition of Discover Your Ancestors periodical has been published and, as usual, I have contributed an article. This month it is about using a map tool that is excellent for family, house and social historians to use.

See: https://discoveryourancestors.co.uk/current-issue/

In this month’s magazine:

Lonely hearts from history: As Valentine’s Day returns, Jayne Shrimpton shows that small ads and dating services are not a new phenomenon…

The price of life: Denise Bates explores the horrors of a mining disaster 150 years ago and the consequences for local families

Who owned that building?   Nick Thorne takes a walk of discovery through historic Eton, checking historical records on the move

A chest full of surprises: Keith Gregson reports on an interesting and unusual source for learning about family life in the mid-20th century

Speaking of the unspeakable: Andrew Chapman discovers that two famous literary names both attended the same public execution

History in the details: Materials – fur (part 2)

Discover Your Ancestors Periodical Feb 2023

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  • Free ebook: London 1823 Pigot’s Directory

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