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...History Detectives, we get sent a lot of very different things. Every single one of them has a story to tell. This beautiful bible was sent into us by Grace Knutt who lives in Buckinghamshire. Inside, starting 1864, are the names and dates of birth of her great grandparents’ thirteen children. It’s an invaluable record for Grace to use to trace her family tree back...

...history? [Dr Roisin Watson]Family holidays always involved a trip to a castle or church when I was younger. Walking around these places made the people of the past seem more immediate. As a teenager, I remember reading a book called Vermeer’s Hat by Timothy Brook that completely changed what I thought history could be. In it, he tells the history of global trade in the...

...History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past, consists of a series of essays, drawn from material contained in the Reading Experience Database, that illustrate different aspects of reading in Britain during the period from 1450 to 1945. These essays are designed for you as the reader to dip in and dip out, allowing you to pick which essays best suits your...

...history of female protest and suffrage in the UK: Introduction - Popular protests can be about all sorts of issues, from opposition to a war, to action on world poverty, to protest against damage to the environment. But perhaps the ultimate form of popular protest is that against exclusion from democratic rights. Campaigns to secure the vote are based on the understanding...