E-böcker / Kulturhistoria
Women in War
The changing role of women in warfare, a neglected aspect of military history, is the subject of this collection of perceptive, thought-provoking essays. By looking at the wide ran ...
Tracing Your Black Country Ancestors
The Black Country in the West Midlands is an important site for family historians. Many researchers, seeking to trace their ancestry back through the generations, will find their t ...
Air Force Lives
What was it like to serve as an airman in the Second World War, as a pilot, a bomb aimer, or aerial gunner, or as a trainee pilot in 1913, a Zeppelin chaser during the First World ...
Birth, Marriage and Death Records
Birth, marriage and death records are an essential resource for family historians, and this handbook is an authoritative introduction to them. It explains the original motives for ...
Broadmoor Revealed
Glimpse what went on behind the walls of England's first Criminal Lunatic Asylum!Mark Stevens reveals what life was like for the criminally insane over one hundred years ago. From ...
Jewish Lives
Jewish Lives presents the life-stories of ten individual Jews who immigrated to Britain between 1750 and 1950, based on actual genealogical research. Their life-stories, enriched b ...
Napoleonic Lives
Two hundred years ago the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars convulsed the whole of Europe. These were key events in the history of the continent, and for Britain, and they are a fa ...
Second World War Lives
The Second World War was a momentous event in twentieth-century history and it is a fascinating period for family historians to explore. Numerous records are available to researche ...
Sodasta ja rakkaudesta
"Vinhasti räiskyy sodan pauhina. Sen aiheuttavat hirmuiset äänet monien vekottimien syytäessä kuivaa muonaa puolin ja toisin. Olemme hyökkäämässä tien suunnassa, tehtävänä ottaa yh ...
Tracing Your Ancestors' Parish Records
Parish records are essential sources for family and local historians, and Stuart Raymond's handbook is an invaluable guide to them. He explores and explains the fascinating and var ...
Tracing Your Great War Ancestors: The Gallipoli Campaign
Do you have an ancestor who served in the Gallipoli campaign in the First World War? Perhaps you have thought of visiting the battlefields in Turkey and the monuments that commemor ...
Tracing your Great War Ancestors: Ypres
Do you have an ancestor who served at Ypres in the First World War, during the four years in which the city was in the front line? Perhaps you have thought of visiting the battlefi ...
Tracing Your Scottish Ancestors
This fully revised second edition of Ian Maxwell’s Tracing Your Scottish Ancestors is a lively and accessible introduction to Scotland’s long, complex and fascinating story. It is ...
Tracing Your Coalmining Ancestors
In the 1920s there were over a million coalminers working in over 3000 collieries across Great Britain, and the industry was one of the most important and powerful in British histo ...
Writing your Family History
Gill Blanchard's practical step-by-step guide to writing a family history is designed for anyone who wants to bring their ancestors' stories to life. She looks at ways of overcomin ...
Tracing Your Merchant Navy Ancestors
What was a merchant seaman’s life like in the past, what experiences would he have had, what were the ships like that he sailed in, and what risks did he run? Was he shipwrecked, r ...
Tracing Your Yorkshire Ancestors
This fully revised second edition of Rachel Bellerby’s best-selling guide is essential reading if you want to find out about your Yorkshire ancestors. As well as tracing when your ...
Tracing Your Ancestors Using the Census
The Pen & Sword guide to the census is detailed, accessible and authoritative, and it is one of the most comprehensive on the market. It has been written with the family historian ...
Tracing Your Ancestors' Childhood
Every family historian has child ancestors, and childhood experiences and records are an essential aspect of research into a past life. That is why Sue Wilkes's detailed and access ...
Tracing Your Ancestors Through Family Photographs
Jayne Shrimpton's complete guide to dating, analysing and understanding family photographs is essential reading and reference for anyone undertaking genealogical and local history ...
Tracing your Family History on the Internet
This fully revised second edition of Chris Paton's best-selling guide is essential reading if you want to make effective use of the internet in your family history research. Every ...
Tracing Your Trade & Craftsman Ancestors
Almost all of us have a tradesman or craftsman – a butcher, baker or candlestick maker – somewhere in our ancestry, and Adèle Emm's handbook is the perfect guide to finding out abo ...
Tracing Your Birmingham Ancestors
Birmingham, the cradle of the industrial revolution and the world's first manufacturing town, is an important focus for many family historians who will find that their trail leads ...
Maids, Wives, Widows
Maids, Wives, Widows is a lively exploration of the everyday lives of women in early modern England, from 1540-1740. The book uncovers details of how women filled their days, what ...
Tracing Your Welsh Ancestors
Few previous publications have focused on Welsh family history, and none have provided a comprehensive guide to the genealogical information available and where to find it. That is ...