Issue Detail
Issue 187
September 2010
Tracing the Female Line
Women workers in an industrial world
Many women were involved in the new trades of the Industrial Revolution, but how do you go about researching them? Keith Gregson looks at some of the key industries and discovers what records are available to help you find out more
Our fashionable forebears
The clothes our ancestors wear in photographs and portraits can tell us an awful lot about both them, and the time in which they lived. Jayne Shrimpton provides a brief history of female fashion and what it can reveal about the lives of your forebears
The fair sex and unfair laws
Do you have a female ancestor who got in trouble with the law? From witchcraft to infanticide, Stephen Wade investigates how the British criminal system has treated women over the centuries
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE:
Where generations meet
Paul Blake and Maggie Loughran investigate the history and records of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Spotlight on Aberdeenshire
Nicola Lisle guides us on a tour of the county’s history and reveals where family historians with links to the area should head first
The mystery of Mallory
Brian Parnaby revisits the story of George Mallory’s ascent of Everest. Was he really the first man to reach its summit?
Secretaries
Nell Darby finds out more about an occupation which was traditionally the preserve of men
Products that changed the world
Karen Foy uncovers the history of perfume
Website review
We take a look at the new London Lives website and see how it can be of use to genealogists
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?