Category: History & Nostalgia

Taking a look at some of Britain’s past

Robert the Bruce

By anonymous | Published: 22 March 2002
"In February 1306 two cousins embraced as they entered the Church of the Minorite Friars in Dumfries. Within minutes the veneer of friendship had slipped. As they stood deep in earnest conversation their voices began to rise. Rage boiled over. A dagger was drawn..." The story of how seven individuals got together to set up a visitor centre commemorating Scotland's Hero King.
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The 1901 census

By David Stockton | Published: 10 January 2002
"The complete 1901 census for England and Wales published on the Internet on 2 January has to be one of the most ambitious projects of its kind undertaken by the Public Records Office [PRO]." David Stockton writes about the 1901 Census and its publication on the World Wide Web.
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Tracing family and friends in Britain

By Karen Bali | Published: 29 October 2001

You’ve lost the phone number of your best mate from college, you can’t remember your cousin’s address and you are not sure whether Great-Aunt Margaret is still living. What can you do, short of hiring a private detective? How can information be obtained when you are oceans away from those long lost special people?

Telephone directories used to be far more useful than they are today when more than one-third of UK residents do not have a listed phone number. Surnames


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