The May 2023 edition of Discover Your Ancestors Periodical is out!
In this issue:
A roof over one's head: Denise Bates unpacks the world of property rentals, tenants' rights and moving house in the past
For the love of God: Caroline Roope explores the work and adventures of 19th century missionaries
The duties of a Victorian registrar: As family historians we rely on the work of past registrars of marriages, births and deaths, but we know little of their work. Daniel Hewitt tells their story
'Murderer' in the margins: Nick Thorne uses the latest enhanced census images to help trace the Eltham Murder victim and the accused, both recorded under the same roof
Hats off to Harold! In February Keith Gregson wrote about a chest full of surprises. An ancient piano stool also caught his eye...
History in the details: Picturing fashion c.1700
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In this January 2023 issue of the Discover Your Ancestors Online Periodical:
Reading the past: Rachel Bates introduces the subject of palaeography, with a guide to reading secretary hand in particular
Revisiting Bowton's Yard: Denise Bates investigates where fact and fiction meet in this well-known working-class ballad
The disappearance of Florence Harris: Nell Darby tells a sad story of hardship and mental illness in Edwardian England
Suffragette and socialist: Lorraine Schofield tells the story of an extraordinary ordinary wife and mother, Hannah Mitchell
Cautionary tales: Nick Thorne recounts a series of unfortunate events in the life of a literary man
History in the details: Materials – fur (part 1)
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The Scotsman, Scotland's national newspaper has published an article about a new map that allows people to track more than 3,000 Scots women who had been accused of being witches in the 16th and 17th Century.
The interactive document has been created by data experts at the University of Edinburgh.
Read the rest of the details on The Scotsman's website
https://www.scotsman.com/heritage/map-of-scots-women-accused-of-witchcraft-published-for-first-time-1-5009814
Queen Victoria's Journals
For those of us researching our ancestors the finding of a diary written by an ancestor would indeed be a red-letter-day.
For those of us researching our ancestors the finding of a diary written by an ancestor would indeed be a red-letter-day.
Not many of us are lucky enough to have access to such a resource. But in its absence we can read contemporary newspapers and magazines to get an understanding for the social influences on their world and what was happening around them.
Also of interest, to those researching the Victorian period, will be the journals written by the reigning monarch as they provide seven decades of royal history. Queen Victoria's Journals have been made available online in a partnership between ProQuest, the Royal Archives and the Bodleian Libraries. The result are high-resolution, colour images of every surviving volume of Queen Victoria's journals from her first entry in 1832 to close to her death in 1901.
Tracing the Victorian period through the eye's of the Queen this resource reflects the changes taking place in the nineteenth century as seen by Victoria herself.
Read more: http://www.queenvictoriasjournals.org/home.do
