Issue Detail
Issue 182
May 2010
On the Paper Trail
AN EDUCATION IN EPHEMERA
This month’s beginner’s guide focuses on palaeography to help you interpret all your old documents correctly. Then we take a look at the history of Edwardian postcards and what they can tell you about the person who wrote them. Finally we meet a lady who dedicates her time to salvaging old documents from antique shops for fellow genealogists.
PLUS:
TRUE BLUE
The family history of David Cameron
TEACHING THE TOMMIES
How the army were educated
CONFESSIONS OF A LADY’S MAID
A deathbed confession
AN EASTER FEAST
The history of Easter foods
SPOTLIGHT ON DURHAM
The city’s history and resources
THE POET AND THE PRISONER
One reader turns up a few characters in her tree
BRISTOL 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?