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On 30 July 1913, a lovely warm day in Nottingham, Arthur William Ludgrove married Elizabeth Marion Murfin.[1] The 1911 census shows that...

This memo was sent from the Officer in Command of No 4 Stationary Hospital on 11 November 1918, I assume probably to every ward in the...

I found this brass tray at an antiques fair. Fellow genealogists will understand the immediate compulsion on seeing the names and dates...

Another exciting day of research in the Hallam household began with the discovery of an interesting grave in London Road Cemetery,...

This is Elizabeth Jones, a nurse based at the Anglo Russian Hospital in Petrograd, she arrived in the summer of 1916. In January 1917 she...

The assault on Anzio by the British 1st Division was virtually unopposed by the German forces. My granddad, Edgar Frank Hallam, was a...

Picked up this random page recently which seems to list all the navy cadets enrolled on 15 January 1879 at Britannia. It seems to have...

Tomorrow as we remember all those lost in the Battle of Jutland let's also remember those who fought and survived, such as Frank Ernest...

Today I was browsing through the British Newspaper Archive when the following short piece from the Dundee Courier (5 December 1934)...

One day while rooting through some old postcards at an antiques fair I came across this smiling face. Turning the card over I found my...

According to a recent survey lots of family historians are happy to find a scoundrel in their family tree. I quite understand. It adds...

Sometimes when you search your family tree back in time you find your ancestors living in neighbouring streets. I like to imagine my...

I bought this photo in a charity shop in Lincoln. I love these old wedding photos but they usually make me sad because they are so often...

In London Road Cemetery in Coventry stands a gravestone to William Wombwell and Ellen Blight. When I read the inscription I just had to...

What I love about history are the STORIES! There are the big stories: the marital ups and downs of Henry VIII, the tempestuous lives of...

Roy Cumestree Trout was an agricultural chemist from Brisbane. He passed his flying certificate in May 1916 at the Central Flying...

Working at the Fun Factory My maternal grandfather’s parents were Frank Elsdon and Elsie Dickinson. I had done a lot of work on the...

So here it is - a new website for us to promote ourselves, the book and share some of the stories that we have discovered along the way....