Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet (Second Edition)

Chris Paton • £14.99
Pen & Sword

In this, the fully updated second edition of his bestselling guide to researching Irish history using the internet, Chris Paton shows the extraordinary variety of sources that can now be accessed online. Although Ireland has lost many records that would have been of great interest to family historians, he demonstrates that a great deal of information survived and is now easily available to the researcher.

As well as exploring the various categories of records that the family historian can turn to, DYA contributor Chris illustrates their use with fascinating case studies. He fully explores the online records available from both the north and the south from the earliest times to the present day. Many overseas collections are also included, and he looks at social networking in an Irish context where many exciting projects are currently under way.

Tracing Your Northern Irish Ancestors (Second Edition)

Ian Maxwell • £14.99
Pen & Sword

This second edition is an expert introduction for the family historian to the wealth of material available to researchers in archives throughout Northern Ireland. Many records, like the early twentieth-century census returns and school registers, will be familiar to researchers, but others are often overlooked by all but the most experienced of genealogists. An easy to use, informative guide. .

A History of Women’s Lives in Oxford

Nell Darby • £14.99
Pen & Sword

Underneath the dreaming spires of Oxford’s world-famous university, generations of women have lived their lives, fighting for the right to study there, and for a role within the city’s educational, political and social spheres. Although a few of these women’s names have been recorded for posterity, they have been largely because of their association with worthy or famous men; in this book, though, their own lives are detailed, along with those who have been largely omitted from history.

The House of Grey: The Story of the Medieval Dynasty

Melita Thomas • £20
Amberley Books

This book follows the Grey family as they use their connections and exploit their position to navigate one of the most brutal, violent and bloody periods in history, the Wars of the Roses. Their position of relatives of the monarch, without the complications of royal blood, involved them in everything from jousts to diplomatic missions, military expeditions to christenings, weddings to funerals. But they flew too close to the sun – a marriage into the line of succession, coupled with the divisions brought by the Reformation, caused the family to crash spectacularly from the pinnacle of power to the block, and the beheading of a girl of 16.

This Golden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain’s Knitted History

Esther Rutter • £16.99

Over the course of a year, Esther Rutter travels the length of the British Isles, to tell the story of wool’s long history here. She unearths fascinating histories of communities whose lives were shaped by wool, from the mill workers of the Border countries, to the English market towns built on profits of the wool trade, and the Highland communities cleared for sheep farming; and finds tradition and innovation intermingling in today’s knitwear industries. Along the way, she explores wool’s rich culture by knitting and crafting culturally significant garments from our history.