Trace the history of your house

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Melanie Backe-Hansen from BBC Two’s A House Through Time shares her

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Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine

19 September, 2023

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Window-tax records

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

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Children’s workhouses

Nine-year-old future star of the silent screen Charlie Chaplin, his mother Hannah, and older half-brother Sydney entered the Lambeth workhouse, south London, in July 1898. The boys were soon transferr

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The pubs that made history

What do our beloved hostelries have to do with the discovery of DNA, the D-Day landings and The Lord of the Rings ? Everything, as Ashleigh Arnott discovers

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Moving moments

Last autumn we decided to move house. We have lived in our present house since 1988, and have loved living here. It is a tall Victorian terraced house near Preston city centre and only 10 minutes’ wal

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Parish registers online

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

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Capturing the voices of the past

Picture the scene: a former NHS chef ‘Clem’ Clements is celebrating his 98th birthday, sitting in his front room surrounded by his medications, an oxygen mask and a discreet tape recorder. He is recal

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Window-tax records

Who Do You Think You Are?

Children’s workhouses

Country Life

The pubs that made history

What do our beloved hostelries have to do with the discovery of DNA, the D-Day landings and The Lord of the Rings ? Everything, as Ashleigh Arnott discovers

Who Do You Think You Are?

Moving moments

Who Do You Think You Are?

Parish registers online

Who Do You Think You Are?

Capturing the voices of the past

Trace the history of your house

Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine

19 September, 2023

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