Spotlight on ... the channel islands family history society

The former historic counties of Cumberland and Westmorland became Cumbria in 1974, at the same time taking bites out of West Riding of Yorkshire and Lancashire. Today the county’s archive service, Cum

Cumbria Archives w cumbriaarchives.org.uk The county archive service’s site has plenty of digital resources, and sections for the four Archive Centres it runs – see below. Barrow Archive Centre a Rams

The Society of Writers to His Majesty’s Signet, better known as the WS Society, is an incorporated body of Scottish solicitors that was founded in 1594. The society owns the neoclassical Signet Librar

Dressing for dinner, attentive staff and shops that shut on Sunday – Longueville Manor in Jersey is like visiting Britain as she once was...

Most of us have unfortunate brick walls in our family trees – those frustrating relations who seem to have appeared into the world as if from nowhere. Perhaps a person does not feature in the baptism

Thanks again for publishing the story of my rabble-rousing ‘Family Hero’, Maria Carr, in your February 2021 issue. As was mentioned in Gail Dixon’s article, a banner to commemorate the people and even