Issue Detail
Issue 181
April 2010
Exposing medical myths
We take a tour around Victorian mental asylums and find out what life would have been like for the inmates. We also look at the phenomenon of body snatchers in the 19th century and look at the collections at the Royal London Hospital archives
FEATURES
A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO…
This month: Criminal Records
INSIDE THE ASYLUM
What was life really like for the inmates?
INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS
A 19th century phenomenon
ROYAL LONDON HOSPITAL ARCHIVES
A day at the archives
FOUR FAB FAMILY TREES
Investigating the Beatles’ ancestry
RETURN TO DEATH RAILWAY
Researching River Kwai ancestors
TAMING OF THE BREW
The occupation of brewer
JOURNEY TO THE EAST
One reader follows in her grandfather’s wartime footsteps
GLASGOW FHS
Find out more about the society
Competition
Win British Newspaper Archive Subscriptions
Discover the genealogical goldmine that is the British Newspaper Archive (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk) with an online subscription. This recently launched digitisation project has four million pages of searchable family notices, advertisements, obituaries, letters and illustrations from over 200 historic local and national newspapers.
We have a one-year subscription (worth £79.95) to give away as well as two 30-day subscriptions (worth £29.95 each) and four 2-day subscriptions (worth £6.95 each). To be in with a chance of winning one, simply answer the following question. Send answers to fhm@metropolis.co.uk or write to the usual address on page three, by the 15th March.
Q: Who invented the printing press in the Holy Roman Empire in 1440?