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GUEST BLOGGER: When the burden of battle becomes too much to bear
Guest blogger, Ancestry.co.uk member and AncestryUK Facebook fan Rob Arguile is currently a student at the university of Hertfordshire, studying for a degree in Geography. He has been researching his family history since he was 17 years old and discovered a story of inspiration and sadness. This post is a tribute from Rob to his great… Read more
GUEST BLOGGER: My ancestor risked his life for horses
Guest blogger Andrew Mills is a passionate family historian and Ancestry.co.uk member who discovered this great war story of bravery in his past. My paternal grandfather’s elder brother Bertie Sidney Mills was born during the second quarter of 1874 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Although his father’s occupation was, according to census returns, a clerk of engineers, Sidney… Read more
My story – from the Wild West to starting an online business
By our guest blogger Bryher Scudamore, who is managing director of autodotbiography ltd. I have just put my bank account, my home, life-savings and my future on the line? Why? Is it because there is insanity in my family, and I’ve inherited it? Not as far as I know. But there is adventure, and risk,… Read more
Victorian Christmas Traditions
The Nativity of Christ has been celebrated for centuries and yet most traditional customs were of pagan origin. There then followed a period where Christmas celebration was almost non-existent due to the condemnation of pagan customs and superstitions during the Protestant Reformation. The Puritans then abolished all public celebrations after the Civil War and Christmas… Read more
Nurses and the wounded in The First World War
William Spencer is the principal military specialist at The National Archives where he has worked since 1993. He served in the Fleet Air Arm for 13 years, including active service with 848 Squadron in the South Atlantic, and holds an MA from the Department of War Studies at King’s College, London. Although there were a… Read more
GUEST BLOGGER: The horrors suffered by horses during WWI
Guest blogger Natasha Kleanthous is website editor at The Blue Cross animal charity. She reveals more about the role of animals in the First World War. It wasn’t just men who answered the call in 1914 to leave behind the peaceful, rural life they’d always known and enter the unknown to fight for their country.… Read more
GUEST BLOGGER: William Sexton Blake divulges his family history
Guest blogger William Sexton Blake, family historian and great contributor to the Ancestry.co.uk Facebook fan page, offering advice, information of value and lots of humour. My name is William Sexton Blake. I am 52 years old. I have lived in Chester, Cheshire for 35 years. I was born in Newcastle upon Tyne and my roots are… Read more
My father: a prisoner of war
Guest blogger Midge Gillies, author of The Barbed-Wire University: The Real Lives of Prisoners of War in the Second World War I grew up knowing that my father had been a prisoner of war but it was not until his death that I began to realise that being “in the bag” was about much more… Read more
Help find the missing heroes of World War I
The Royal Aero Club needs your help! It’s looking for photographs of World War I pilots, to complete its impressive archive. It has details of around 200 early flyers whose pictures are missing – perhaps you could take a look and see if you recognise any of the names? In the early days of the… Read more
The story behind Weston’s Family History Fair
By Bob Steed, Treasurer of the South West Area Group of Family History Societies’ Fair The South West Family History Fair recently took place at the Winter Gardens in Weston super Mare, Somerset. This Fair is held every two years and started in 1997. So why Weston? Why bother to organise such an event? Is it… Read more
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