Birtles Vicarage: More Than Tea and Theology
Meet clergy families, daughters, schoolboy boarders, later residents and the final vicarage family, while discovering how one young occupant’s story connects unexpectedly to the modern electric kettle.
Stamford Fields to Southampton Seas: The 1830s Relocation of a Family of Druggists
In the mid-1830s, a family of druggists left agricultural Stamford for coastal Southampton.
Walking in Marylebone and Paddington in the footsteps of my ancestors.
My journey into where may ancestors lived and worked and the things you need to think about before you begin walking in their footsteps.
Building the Past: How the Twentieth Century Transformed the Ironbridge Gorge
In the 1970s and 1980s the Ironbridge Gorge was transformed into a tourist destination and a place where people could ‘step into the past’.
Changing Places Through Occupation
Explore the occupations where skills were needed, and transferable, in different places.
From Barometers to Borromeo: the legacy of Antonio Mantegani in Wisbech.
At some point in 1819/1820, Swiss national, Antonio Mantegani, arrived in Wisbech to start his career as a hawker of jewellery and trinkets.
Drunken, dissipated and immoral? The Woodlark Passengers 1874
What became of the men, women and children who arrived in Aotearoa New Zealand on the Woodlark in 1874?
WALKING DISTANCE – A Gypsy’s world tour
Sidney Lee Gregory was born a Hampshire Romany Gypsy in 1875. At the age of 12 he was transported to Canada
Scandinavian Spelling Standardizations
Found Scandinavian records, but the words don’t match that online word list? The issue may have to do with calendars or spelling!
Changing Places: Tracing English convicts from crime to colony
Transportation and immigration to Colonial Australia transformed ordinary places into milestones of extraordinary journeys.