In The News

A collection of interesting social history and genealogy-related articles. For now I've alphabetised them by headline, but as this collection grows I may reorganise...

Can Grimsby lay claim to a milestone in women's football?


For the female mountaineering pioneers, it was an uphill struggle

In pictures: Russian Empire in colour photos

MI5 spied on Charlie Chaplin after FBI asked for help to banish him from US

Nazi persecution saw Jews flee abroad as servants

Ten key moments in the history of marriage

U.S. Government Still Pays Two Civil War Pensions

Were single mothers better off in the 19th Century?

Were extreme suffragettes regarded as terrorists?

'World's last' WWI veteran Florence Green dies aged 110