The end of the census?

What would we do without census returns? How could we even begin to research our 19th and early 20th-century English and Welsh and indeed Scottish ancestry without access to that remarkable resource?

Like the UK, Ireland has a one-hundred-year rule in place for the release of historic census records. The 1926 census of Ireland is particularly significant because there was no Irish census taken in

Registers of baptisms, marriages and burials are essential for tracing ancestors before civil registration began (1837 in England and Wales, 1855 in Scotland, and 1864 in Ireland). This month we’re on

After the hearth tax on fireplaces ended in 1689, the Government sought a replacement. Further driven by financial losses from coin clipping, which saw criminals shave metal from coins to melt it down

Controversy of the week A grim anniversary When ...

When Britain declared war on Germany in September 1939, the Army numbered just over one million men, comprising both the regular forces and the part-time Territorial Army. The National Service (Armed