‘my ancestors were mps with royal connections’ with a dna test as her starting point, lynsey ford followed a trail that led from humble ‘ag labs’ back to the movers and shakers of the 15th and 16th centuries, she tells claire vaughan

Unusually, my story begins at the end with the perplexing death certificate of my great grandfather William Taylor. William died aged 71 in May 1938, in Gosport, Hampshire, and the death was registere

Family history research can, as we know, take us down many paths with surprising outcomes but I would never in my wildest dreams have thought that it would result in my cousin and I standing on a foot

A good knowledge of geography is important for many aspects of our research. Can you arrange these six English towns from north to south?: Chester Gloucester Leicester Manchester Rochester Worcester I

During the Second World War, between 1942 and 1945, approximately 240,000 African American GIs were stationed in Britain. The British government was concerned about Black soldiers and white British wo

I’m sceptical about news stories you sometimes read of big black cats roaming the countryside. I was, however, tempted to don my boots for a hike I found on the internet titled In the Footsteps of the

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