Who Do You Think You Are

With the Olympics around the corner, Jane Shrimpton explains how photographs of our ances...

Phil Tomaselli explains how visiting First World War Battlefields can provide a fascinati...

Laura Berry reveals some lesser known facts about the records we rely on to take our ance...

Nicola Lyle traces the history of the Royal Artillery, which celebratesits 300th annivers...

Series genealogist Laura Berry introduces the first part of a twelve week guide to tracin...

The wait is nearly over. Series 13 of Who Do You Think You Are is almost here. Claire Va...

As details of female prisoners go online, Angela Buckley looks at the reality for lawless...

Gill Blanchard shares her tips on building a story that can be shared

One hundred and fifty years ago, several blasts at the Oaks Colliery in Barnsley claimed ...

Hiring fairs gave farmhands the chance to bargain with potential employers – and sp...

How a meeting of minds at WDYTYA? Live led to a mission to find an enigmatic soldier&rsqu...

WDYTYA? made Amanda Holden’s dream come true by uncovering her French roots (includ...

Advice on how to get the most out of your next trip to Kew.

The notorious court case that casts a fascinating light on sex, marriage and the stage in...

Newspapers can be a great source of vital official information and fascinating personal d...

Caroline Scott reveals the prejudice and poverty faced by Irish migrant communities in 19...

Revealing your ancestor’s everyday lives at the time of major world events.

Including film archives in the research toolkit means we can see our family history in ac...

When Paul Sibbald investigated his grandmother’s Shetland ancestry, he uncovered a ...

The final triumphant stage of the ‘race to the north’ by railway companies wa...

When Jennifer Hobhouse Balme inherited a trunk of her great aunt Emily’s papers, sh...

Thousands of Britons shunned ‘demon drink’ and went on to sign a temperance p...

Intrigued by her great grandfather’s second marriage when his first wife was still ...

News of Napoleon’s approach to Brussels came to Wellington while he was at the Duch...

One of history’s bloodiest battles took place 200 years ago this June. Dr David Moo...

An explosion outside a Victorian prison had a devastating effect on the lives of Anita Ho...

Estranged fathers in the trenches of the First World War were not the study Edwardian cha...

In 1908, for the first time, the state made an agreement to pay a pension to the industri...

Ann-Louise Jones’ great, great aunt Eva Woodthorpe suffered physical abuse as she c...

Vivienne Luke, of Hobart, Tasmania, could find no details of her great grandfather John K...

Although the occupation has sometimes carried negative connotations, Serena Dyer reveals ...

Archivists from around the country reveal how their favourite record could help your rese...

A letter sent home from Australia revealed the exciting transformation in a Victorian wom...

Reading a letter printed in our magazine connected Caroline Hill with Canadian cousins sh...

The Women’s Royal Naval Service (WRNS) played a vital but often overlooked role in ...

Anthony Burton looks at the lives of working potters from the early days of this essentia...

This year, it was established that books were for everyone – not just the rich &nda...

Jane Seymour’s episode was a harrowing tale of two Jewish sisters’ survival i...

Vivien Concannon has been delighted to discover more about her daring forebears who thril...

Jane Robinson pays tribute to the ‘original social network’ – the Women...

Jackie Dinnis wanted to discover more about the life of her Victorian family in between c...

After a year of fighting the First World War from trenches, the Allies decided it was tim...

Ann Kissane’s ancestor Michael Keane escaped poverty and famine in County Kerry to ...

We all love the idea that we could be descended from the gentry. Here Ed Dutton helps you...

Robert Ward has found forgers, killers and fraudsters in his colourful family history. He...

Provincial garden clubs have occupied the winter evenings of horticulturalists for severa...

The changing role of the British undertaker, from coffin-maker to funeral director

Lynne Ludlow spent years searching for her elusive grandfather, before a hint on the Who ...

In an Oxford Street store, crowds of people huddled around an assembly of unprepossessing...

Sue Browle's forebears were among the few who escaped one of County Durham's mopst notori...