How to undertake a successful graveyard research trip

Britain is one of the last constitutional monarchies in the world, and the king or queen still plays a ceremonial role in the governance of the state. When Queen Elizabeth II died in 2022, she was bur

There’s never been so many well-stocked sources of historic photographs online. We’ve tried to pull together some examples of regional image libraries, as well as useful nationwide resources. While ma

Cultural Crusader

You have been thinking about researching your ancestry, your relatives are emptying out the cupboards to find old family documents to help, and the family stories are beginning to flow. But how should

Free-range history

Geocaching is often described as a way of ‘using billions of dollars of US satellite technology to find plastic boxes in the woods’. The word geocache comes from ‘geo’, meaning earth (think geography)