25% off all The British Newspaper Archive subscriptions this Easter. Offer ends April 3rd.
:Link 👉https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/account/subscribe?PromotionCode=EASTER25
FHSC Trustees and Committee would like to wish all members a happy and joyful Easter, wherever and however you choose to celebrate.
📷John Horns Easter Eggs, Date 1907 Credit: The National Archives - Ref Copy 1/263 [255]
The National Records of Scotland online Suffragettes portal contains a wealth of primary source research material, from letters and journals to criminal case papers.
Free to access here 👉https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/files/exhibitions/women-suffrage/profiles.html
Some news from the British History Online which you may like to take advantage of -
On February 29 2024, we upgraded our website to Drupal 10, and moved server. In the process, there have been a number of problems with subscriptions, logging in, and searching the content. We are working to fix these problems, and appreciate your patience whilst this is accomplished. In the meantime, we have lowered the paywall, and are allowing access to all our material to all visitors.
Link 👉https://www.british-history.ac.uk/
The Wirral History and Heritage Association annual Fair takes place this Saturday 23rd March at Hulme Hall, Port Sunlight between 10am - 4pm
FHSC along with other Historical Societies will be in attendance
Admission is free, as is the parking and the site is level access with a cafe - a good day out in other words!
The venue postcode is CH62 5DH, [Bolton Road, Bebington] just off the A41, 5 minutes walk from Port Sunlight Station
Any queries to
The National Library of Scotland Map Collections have just added a new feature to their Map Images Website
You can now search by postcode in the Map Finder or Georeferenced Viewers.
Find out more here 👉https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/help.html#ngr
Watch out also for our May Seminar, when Chris Fleet from the National Libraries of Scotland is coming to talk to us about the map images collection, how to use it and get the best out of this wonderful free resource. Full details will be out soon but keep 15th May free!
As part of their 40 year celebrations, Family Tree magazine (UK) are asking for your top 40 family history books - fact or fiction.
Get voting!
Link for full details 👉https://www.family-tree.co.uk/news/top-40-family-history-books/
In honour of St. Patrick’s Day, MyHeritage are making all Irish historical records available for free from March 14 to 18, 2024
As always watch the T&Cs
The National Archives (TNA) has announced a contract to digitise, transcribe and publish the four million records of the Home Guard in the Second World War and 1950s.
The records are among 14 million records of personnel who served in all branches of the armed forces between 1920 and 1963 which are currently being transferred from the Ministry of Defence to TNA.
Reaad more 👉https://www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/news/the-national-archives-contract-digitise-home-guard-records
Over 1.6 million historic records of employees at Dublin’s famous Guinness Storehouse have been published online in time for St Patrick’s Day.
The records were digitised by family history website Ancestry in partnership with the Guinness Storehouse Archives.
Ancestry has added two sets of records – ‘Guinness Trade Ledgers, 1860-1960’ (consisting of 1,452,426 records) and ‘Guinness Employee Records, 1799-1939’ (consisting of 204,605 records).
Carry on reading 👉https://www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/news/guinness-employee-records-ancestry
Article on the BBC website makes interesting reading
Link 👉https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-68469493
First of the month and my usual list of free online events that members may be interested in.
I have added a few for the beginning of April as I had a few comments from members that they had missed booking talks for the start of the month as they were already fully booked by the time I had advertised them
Full details in the link under each talk heading
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