Discover Your Ancestors
Issue 012
Welcome again to Discover Your Ancestors Periodical, your monthly companion to family, social and local history. This issue completes our first full year of the Periodical, and I’m delighted to say that we’ve had lots of encouraging feedback, as well as growing in both pagination and numbers of subscribers. We’re also brimming with plans for future issues!
In the meantime, in this issue you’ll find the usual rich mix. We have an interesting piece by Kirsty Gray about the technology that powered the Industrial Revolution, and how it affected people’s lives; and her colleague at the Society for One-Place Studies, Dr Janet Few, explains what such studies are and why they are so interesting to conduct.
We’ve learned in a previous issue that school records can be fascinating to explore, and this time we have extracts of Victorian school log books from Leicestershire, which at once make school life in the 19th century seem both familiar and remote. All that and plenty more as ever…
Also, don’t forget that Issue 3 of our annual printed edition, packed with more than 30 features across 164 pages, is out now in good newsagents across the English-speaking world, as well as available to buy direct via our own website at discoveryourancestors.co.uk. Happy reading!
Andrew Chapman, Editor.