Family names are an essential part of everyone's personal history. The story of their evolution is integral to family history and fascinating in its own right. Formed from ...

Leading family historian David Hey offers practical guidance on how to trace family origins through the basics of research - how to get started, where to find records, and how ...

This text offers a wealth of reliable advice covering the repositories, the records, the research methods and more. Topics cover over 600 years, from World War I records back ...

In medieval and early modern Britain, people would refer to their local district as their 'country', a term now largely forgotten but still used up until the First World War ...

This is a book for those thousands of family historians who have already made some progress in tracing their family tree and have become interested in the places where their ...

Founded in 1624, the Cutlers' Company of Hallamshire has played a crucial role in the history of Sheffield, as supervisor and regulator of cutlery and steel trades in "the ...

Written largely by her former research students, this book honours the varied and creative career of Joan Thirsk.