Discover Your Ancestors
Issue 030
A warm welcome to Discover Your Ancestors Periodical, offering the usual engaging monthly mix of social history and family history research advice.
This month we have a typically diverse range of articles. I’m pleased to welcome Dr Jonathan Healey of Oxford University to our pages, exploring popular rebellions in Tudor times. Social historian Sue Wilkes takes us into the salt works of Cheshire and Worcestershire, looking at a trade of great importance to life in the past.
Meanwhile we also delve into the murky stories of Scotland Yard’s private crime museum, never open to the public – but a new exhibition at the Museum of London starting this month showcases some of its interesting treasures.
In a reflection of the colourful patchwork of this month’s articles, we also have Ruth Symes exploring how patchworks lovingly sewn by our forebears can sometimes offer useful insights into the details of our family history.
And there’s more, of course – I hope you enjoy the read!
Andrew Chapman, Editor.