Spotlight on… the airedale & wharfedale family history society

1 OCTOBER, NOON ‘Tracing your Nonconformist ancestors’ An IHGS talk with Achievements researcher Elizabeth Yule. £10. ▶ https://bit.ly/3HU46Zr Explore the range of IHGS courses, tutorials and workshop

From the mid-16th century, anyone running an inn or alehouse needed permission from the justices of the peace. Later, landlords were required to pledge not to allow disorderly conduct in their establi

Companies in the news and how they were assessed

Dear Simon, My daughter, Wendy, and I have enjoyed so many visits to Singapore, and this year we felt it was about time we put our thoughts and experiences down on paper. Sir Stamford Raffles was knig

On the Yorkshire Life radar: events, openings and happenings across Yorkshire

Almost nine million parish records from Suffolk have been added to the family history website Ancestry (ancestry.co.uk). The site has released four sets of records from the Diocese of St Edmundsbury a