An introduction to medieval records for the genealogist & local historian 1066-1485

Before the introduction of civil registration of births, marriages and deaths in England and Wales in 1837, it is the parochial registers recording the baptisms, marriages and burials of our ancestors

“Hands of Saint Dominic” by Albrecht Dürer, 1506; ...

Different ways of dying across the British Isles

How Chaucer reshaped English poetry

A coroner’s view of Tudor ends

Ironmongers’ Hall, London EC2 The home of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers