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69Roles of Women in World War I
By 1914 nearly 5.9 million were working out of the 23.8 million females in Britain. In World War I, for example, thousands of women worked in munitions factories, offices and large hangars used to build...
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74We're Here Because We're Here
It was the song they sang as they marched to the trenches. "We're Here Because We're Here." It was sung to the tune of Auld Lang Syne, a sardonic joke sung in full-throated defiance of death. "We're here...
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74Ghost Cavalry of the Great War
Captain Cecil Wightwick left us an account of the strange things that happened between April and August 1918 near Bethune (France), in the middle of an area of front line trenches between the city of Ypres...
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81Operation Sealion - how Britain prepared for the Nazi invasion in 1940
As Winston Churchill, the new Prime Minister, put it, “the Battle of France is over, the Battle of Britain is about to begin"
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65The McGregors in South Africa
Two Scottish clans, the Robertson and the McGregor, came together in South Africa in the 1860s and started a South African dynasty.
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79The Angels of Mons
In 1930, the British newspaper The Daily News had a story about angels fighting on the side of the British troops during the retreat from Mons, in August 1914...
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78Tracing your relatives World War 1 Records
It is now 90 years since the end of world war one. During November 2008 Ancestry.co.uk are offering free access to the World War 1 records, so you can research your relatives history; War Records - Medals -...
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75A “Grand Tour” in old photographs
I love old photographs. Perhaps it’s because they give us a glimpse of what people thought was interesting or important at the time they were taken. They pique our curiosity and perhaps evoke a nostalgia for a time we can never again experience.
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88The sinking of the Lusitania: A survivor's story
Fannie Jane Morecroft left New York on RMS Lusitania on the 1st May 1915, bound for Liverpool. The Lusitania was one of the great Atlantic liners, which rushed to and fro across the Atlantic conveying people...
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69Origins of Terrorism
Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. A great motto. A thought venerable enough to live and die for. And yes, it was the most enduring thoughts on which the French Revolution was based on. Yet, who would...
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