Genealogy & Heraldry

The trail that an ancestor leaves through the Victorian period and the twentieth century is relatively easy to follow - the records are plentiful, accessible and commonly used. But how do you go back further, into the centuries before the central...

Do you know where you came from? Who Do You Think You Are? has been a BBC hit since its first series in 2004, which ignited an extraordinary boom in researching family history in the UK. Since then, the world of genealogy has transformed and while our...

Throughout the ages flags have been a means of cultural and national identity, communication, and a means of representation for groups and associations. Compiled by a leading authority this book, newly updated for this larger format edition, is a...

DNA research is one of the most important and rapidly advancing areas in modern science and the practical use of DNA testing in genealogy is one of its most exciting applications. Yet there is no recent British publication in this field. That is why this...

Imagine you are standing in a line. Your father is behind you, his father behind him, his father behind him, his father behind him and so on back 1000 generations.... This group of people wouldn't fill the average pop concert venue, yet the last man in...

Almost all of us have a tradesman or craftsman - a butcher, baker or candlestick maker - somewhere in our ancestry, and Adele Emm's handbook is the perfect guide to finding out about them - about their lives, their work and the world they lived in. She...

'I adored this book - a wondrous compendium of Iceland's best sagas' - Hannah Kent A new friendship. An unforgettable journey. A beautiful and bloody history.This is Iceland as you've never read it before ...Broadcaster Richard Fidler and author Kari...

Collins Gem Babies Names is number one in the best-selling stakes. Meet its Irish cousin! This detailed guide to over 2000 of the most popular Irish first names is the ideal gift for anyone wishing to choose an Irish name for their child, or is...

With online access to records making it easy for most people of Irish origin to trace their family background, there has never been a better time to research your Irish family history. This guide contains everything you need to know to speed up the...

The Diary recorded by Lady Murasaki (c. 973-c. 1020), author of The Tale of Genji, is an intimate picture of her life as tutor and companion to the young Empress Shoshi. Told in a series of vignettes, it offers revealing glimpses of the Japanese imperial...

Since its first publication, twenty years ago, Track Down Your Ancestors has helped thousands of readers to take the first steps on their journey into their family's past. Now totally revised and updated in 2010, to include the latest on-line resources...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806321288Author Roberta EstesFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Genealogical Publishing CompanyPublisher Genealogical Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

Scotland is a land with a proud and centuries long history that far pre-dates its membership of Great Britain and the United Kingdom. Today in the 21st century it is also a land that has done much to make its historical records accessible, to help those...

Anyone who wants to find out about the history of their house - of their home - needs to read this compact, practical handbook. Whether you live in a manor house or on a planned estate, in a labourer's cottage, a tied house, a Victorian terrace, a...

Madresfield Court is an arrestingly romantic stately home in the Malvern Hills in Worcestershire. It has been continuously owned and lived in by the same family, the Lygons, back to the time of the Domesday Book, and, unusually, remains in the family's...

Historians and broadcasters Peter Snow and Ann Macmillan tell the real stories of the most powerful men and women in British history.From Alfred the Great to Charles III, Kings & Queens explores the lives, loves, triumphs and disasters of a monarchy that...

First published by the New York Public Library in 1946, Black's The Surnames of Scotland has long established itself as one of the great classics of genealogy. Arranged alphabetically, each entry contains a concise history of the family in question (with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781852170820Author John MackayFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Lang Syne Publishers LtdPublisher Lang Syne Publishers Ltd

Property title deeds are perhaps the most numerous sources of historical evidence but also one of the most neglected. While the information any one deed contains can often be reduced to a few lines, it can be of critical importance for family and local...

This fully revised paperback edition of the complete chronological record of VC holders is an essential work of reference for every student of military history. All the British and Commonwealth servicemen who have been awarded the highest honour for...

Russell Ash has trawled parish registers and censuses going back 900 years to compile the first ever complete book of breathtakingly unlikely-but-true British names. It features an incredible and diverse range of totally genuine names, evoking everything...

Coats of arms were at first used only by kings and princes, then by their great nobles.But by the mid-13th century arms were being used extensively by the lesser nobility, knights and those who later came to be styled gentlemen. In some countries the use...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993054280Author Sheridan ParsonsFormat PaperbackImprint Project BoxPublisher Project Box

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993189623Author Rebecca ProbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Takeaway (Publishing)Publisher Takeaway (Publishing)Weight(grams) 195g

'That's what happens when you listen to the stories and they start to tell themselves all over again ... the more you hear, the more questions there are, answers unpeeling like the layers of an onion.'Memoir, detective work and political history come...

This authoritative volume provides a beautifully illustrated guide to the most influential composers of classical music. Starting from medieval times, the book gives detailed biographies covering the life and times of each composer, listing their most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781852172206Author Iain GrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Lang Syne Publishers LtdPublisher Lang Syne Publishers Ltd

This is a new edition of the bestselling guide to this increasingly popular pursuit. Scotland has the best-maintained records and facilities of any country in the world for undertaking family research, and now that the National Records of Scotland are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806316840Author Brian MitchellFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Genealogical Publishing CompanyPublisher Genealogical Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

Family and Local Historians frequently encounter the challenge posed by the writing, and sometimes the translation, of the records which might most enable them to make further progress with their research. Many pamphlets, booklets and even books have...

The story of the Highland clans is a gripping one, full of celebrated names and heroic deeds. It is also, as Alistair Moffat reveals, the story of a fearless people, shaped by the unique traditions and landscape of the Scottish Highlands. Here, he traces...

Margaret Forster's grandmother died in 1936, taking many secrets to her grave. Where had she spent the first 23 years of her life? Who was the woman in black who paid her a mysterious visit shortly before her death? How had she borne living so close to...

Thanks to digitisation, newspapers from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century have become an indispensable and accessible source for researchers. Through their pages, historians with a passion for a person or a place or a time or a topic can...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806358017Author Brian MitchellFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint ClearfieldPublisher ClearfieldWeight(grams) 136g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734613902Author Diahan SouthardFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Your DNA GuidePublisher Your DNA GuideWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Despite its Union with England and Wales in 1707, Scotland remained virtually independent from its partners in many ways, retaining its own legal system, its own state church, and its own education system. In Tracing Scottish Ancestry Through Church and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847712196Author Heini GruffuddFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399528941Author Teresa NormanFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Perigee Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncDimensions(mm) 235mm * 190mm * 34mm

This fully revised and updated fourth edition of Scottish Genealogy is a comprehensive guide to tracing your family history in Scotland. Written by one of the most authoritative figures on the subject, the work is based on established genealogical...

Gender, Family, and Politics is the first full-length, gender-inclusive study of the Howard family, one of the pre-eminent families of early-modern Britain. Most of the existing scholarship on this aristocratic dynasty's political operation during the...