Discover Your Ancestors
Issue 056
Welcome to the December issue of Discover Your Ancestors Periodical, your monthly digital family and social history magazine.
In this issue I’m pleased to welcome back Simon Wills, who presents a fascinating history of poachers and gamekeepers, a subject which has been somewhat neglected in the history magazines hitherto. Meanwhile, Harry Cunningham follows up his history of the Labour Party (see our May 2017 issue) with a look at the Tories.
My family will tell you I’m a bit of a curmudgeon about Christmas, but it’s always interesting to learn about the history of our traditions – so in this issue I’m glad that Nick Thorne has given us the background to two long-standing Christmas traditions.
All of this issue’s writers will be back in our next print edition, which we’re working hard on. More on that next time!
In the meantime, have a great Christmas and enjoy this issue.
Andrew Chapman, Editor.