Eddie Horner - The Horner Collection about 1896 Have you ever looked at an old photo and just wondered about who that person was and what...

Climmers with eggs - from York Evening Press Archive No that's not a spelling mistake in the title! Climmers were egg collectors. At this...

A 19th century report into child mine workers uncovers amazing details of children's lives in the South Wales mines.

Cotton Queen Frances Lockett returns to Newton Mill, Hyde. June 1930 Tameside Local   Studies & Archives While doing some research into...

Women's Stories in Wartime

Yorkshire Gazette. Saturday 23rd October 1880. Just as background to the story let me introduce Mary Dent, born Mary Penrose in York in...

When this wonderful picture popped up on my facebook page I was fascinated! Of course, I have heard of 'knocker-upper's' but not using a...

Gordon Armstrong (centre) 1910 Beverley Westwood. Photo: Beverley Guardian While researching a house history for a client I uncovered an...

Bluecoats School York - Register 1901 from Find My Past Last week I posted the first instalment of an article I had written about St...

Have you ever thought ‘if only these walls could talk’? Well looking at some of the historic buildings that surround us living in the UK...

Were your ancestors famous - or perhaps infamous! Newspaper reports can give so much information, and finding an ancestor’s name can...

Christmas celebrations only really started to happen in the UK in the mid to late nineteenth century. Working folk may not even have had...

Missing off the Census? If you have started some family history research and are merrily researching, what happens when suddenly someone...

Do you live in an older home in the UK or perhaps you now live somewhere else but know that your ancestors did live in a house with some...

Great Uncle Ted was famous in our family. He came from a Yorkshire working class family, but everyone said he had left home and travelled...

Agricultural Workers wearing the traditional smock which was commonly worn by Labourers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries until...