Crisp’s marriage licences

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

The civil registration of marriage in Ireland commenced in April 1845 for couples marrying through Protestant denominations, or on a nondenominational basis through civil marriages performed by state-

As far back as medieval times, unmarried women in Scotland could take the fathers of their children to court to force them to pay maintenance towards the expenses incurred during birth and her subsequ

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On 10 August 1948 Felix Hull became Berkshire’s first county archivist. He was working out of the basement of Reading’s old Shire Hall, now the Roseate Hotel, and collections under his care eventually

Author and paranormal researcher Dr Paul Lee reveals his pick of the UK’s haunted hot spots where you just might encounter a ghost over the summer months