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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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      • Free ebook: Liverpool Street Map c.1890

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Have you seen this month’s Discover Your Ancestors Periodical?

If you like family or social history then this online publication will be right up your street! I’ve contributed the article about Hertha Ayrton, a pioneering British engineer, scientist and suffragette.

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In the March 2023 issue of the Discover Your Ancestors Periodical you can read the following great articles:

    • Meet the court leet: Archivist Rachel Bates reveals how court leet records can provide a fascinating window into early modern society, as well as aid family history research
    • Discovering Rugby, Tennessee: Helen Baggott tells the story of a utopian community which didn’t quite work as planned, but has left an interesting legacy for today
    • Shocking times: Nick Thorne traces historical records for Hertha Ayrton, a pioneering British engineer and scientist overlooked because of her gender
    • The madness of Ilda Orme: How do you finish writing a biography when you don’t know how the subject’s life ended? Follow Nell Darby on a fascinating and frustrating quest
    • The father of self-help: Lorraine Schofield tells the story of Samuel Smiles
    • History in the details: Materials – rubber

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    • 12 monthly issues of the Periodical
    • Access to 500,000,000 birth, marriage and death records
    • Free data: Titanic passenger list
    • Free ebook: Kelly’s 1931 Directory of Bromley; including Bickley, Chislehurst, Orpington and District

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