The Hare with Amber Eyes
Edmund De Waal
264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger than a matchbox: potter Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in the Tokyo apartment...
Fathers and Sons
Richard Madeley
Richard Madeley is fascinated by the speed of change in family life and how being a father has changed since the time of his father and grandfather. In...
Writing Your Family History
A Practical Guide
Deborah Cass
Ever wished to see your family history in print, or imaged future generations poring over old photographs and anecdotes in a book? Writing Your Family History helps family...
The Historian
Elizabeth Kostova
Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters addressed ominously to 'My dear and unfortunate successor'....
My Family and Other Strangers
Adventures in Family History
Jeremy Hardy
When Jeremy Hardy decided to explore his ancestry it was, in part, to get to the bottom of his grandmother Rebecca's dubious claims that the family descended from...
Tracing Your West Indian Ancestors
Guy Grannum
This illustrated guide introduces researchers to the main sources available at the Public Record Office and elsewhere to study West Indian ancestry. Sources include electoral and tax returns,...
Local History
A Handbook for beginners
Philip Riden
A practical introduction to local history research in England and Wales for all levels of reader.
Tracing the History of Your House
The Building, the People, the Past
Nick Barratt
This guide to researching the history of a house, old or new, is for anyone who is interested in historical properties, from their own house to stately homes....
Who Do You Think You Are? Encyclopedia of Genealogy
The Definitive Reference Guide to Tracing Your Family History
Nick Barratt
From the makers of the award-winning BBC series and Dr Nick Barratt, the UK's leading authority on family history, comes the definitive guide to researching your family's roots...
Writing up Your Family History
A Do-it-Yourself guide
John Titford
Under four main headings, the author shows how to collect, collate and produce a book based on family history. The last stage of the undertaking, the publishing is...
Track Down Your Ancestors
How to Research Your Family History Using Archives and the Internet
Estelle Catlett
Since its first publication, twenty years ago, Track Down Your Ancestors has helped thousands of readers to take the first steps on their journey into their family’s past....
Tracing Your Ancestors in the National Archives
The Website and Beyond
Amanda Bevan
The British public's hunger to meet their ancestors continues, and this guide offers one of the best ways to explore people in the past through the holdings of...
Census
The Expert Guide
Peter Christian
The National Archives' authoritative guide to its most popular set of records. The census has long been an important resource for family, local and social historians, yielding key...
Family History on the Net 2009/2010
Colin Waters
This is the second edition of what has become an almost indispensable aid for family historians. In compiling the new edition, every single entry from the first edition...
Asians in Britain
400 Years of History
Rozina Visram
This is a classic account of Indians in Britain. Spanning three centuries, it tells the history of the Indian community in Britain, from the indentured servants of the...
Tracing Your Army Ancestors
Simon Fowler
Provides a comprehensive introduction to researching army history. This book shows how to trace the careers of individual soldiers from 1760. It explains army organisation and regimental histories...
Emigrants and Expats
A Guide to Sources on UK Emigration and Residents Overseas
Roger Kershaw
This guide describes the major waves of emigration and government-approved schemes since the seventeenth century. It explains what the records contain and how they might be used by...
Immigrants and Aliens
A Guide to Sources on UK Immigration and Citizenship
Roger Kershaw and Mark Pearsall
Over the centuries there have been many waves of immigrants (or aliens as they are often described in official documentation) arriving in Britain. From medieval times Jews, Huguenots...
Family Britain 1951-1957
(Tales of a New Jerusalem)
David Kynaston
As in Austerity Britain, an astonishing array of vivid, intimate and unselfconscious voices drive this narrative. The keen-eyed Nella Last shops assiduously at Barrow Market as austerity and...
Ancestral Trails
The Complete Guide To British Genealogy and Family History
Mark D Herber
This second edition takes account the many changes in the field since Ancestral Trails was first published in 1997. A comprehensive and up-to-date guide to tracing British ancestry,...
The Genealogist's Internet
Peter Christian
The bestselling guide to researching family history online, now updated and expanded. It explores the major sources of data available to family historians and highlights the most useful...
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