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‘Merry England’ is definitely a romanticised lens through which to view the later Medieval period. You only have to glimpse the often gory manuscripts and woodcuts to be reminded of this. But, for us

The World Wide Web brought the internet into the public domain in 1993, and since then it has evolved beyond anything we could have imagined. We can buy clothes, food and all manner of items online, a

Without question, every French genealogy research project begins with parish and civil registers. For some 250 years prior to the French Revolution (1787–1799), the Catholic Church in France, under a

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Bury-born actor Layton Williams, a familiar face from Strictly Come Dancing and BBC Three’s sitcom Bad Education, goes in search of his London roots in the latest series of WDYTYA?. If you also have L

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