Last week Library and Archives Canada announced digitized copies of Imperial Gratuity records would soon be available through their Personnel Records of the First World War web portal. Paid subscribers […]
In the second instalment of my “Doing Their Bit” series I’m highlighting the work of Sarah Teesdale, a volunteer researcher at the Alford Manor House Museum in Lincolnshire. Sarah’s passion for history […]
In April of this year Ancestry made available “Canada, Imperial War Service Gratuities, 1919-1921“, a dataset containing 17,702 records on Canadians who served in the B.E.F., British Navy, Royal Air Force and Nursing […]
Last month a local auction house featured a lot containing a large collection of photographs and some military postcards. Unfortunately I was not the successful bidder however a couple of weeks […]
In April the Royal BC Museum launched Transcribe, a crowd-sourcing website that provides citizen historians with an opportunity to transcribe historical documents from the Provincial Archives. The museum’s first transcription project […]
I would like to think that this photo is of Ethel Styles, a Voluntary Aid Detachment (V.A.D) nurse that I’ve been researching for several months. The postcard isn’t named however it came […]
Fairfield in the First World War is my attempt to shine a light on the contribution made by the residents of my neighbourhood 100 years ago. It’s a micro history […]
