‘we found a centenarian in our family tree’

ANTHONY ADOLPH is a professional genealogist and the author of 11 books PAUL BLAKE is the author of Tracing Your Insolvent Ancestors KATHERINE COBB is a member of AGRA based in Somerset JAYNE SHRIMPTO

Poring over maps of Bolton, Ordnance Survey old and new, I’m wondering why my great-grandfather John Tonge and his family moved house quite so often. To help, I’ve drawn up a list, in date order, of a

On the 250th anniversary of the birth of Georgian’s England’s finest novelist, Indi Bains traces the destinations where you can immerse yourself in all things Jane Austen

Chris Morley walks in the gentle author’s footsteps

Jane Austen spent the last days of her life in rented lodgings in Winchester, Hampshire. Adam Rattray describes the remarkable recent discoveries made about the house in which she died

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