Essential Reading

'I have been a family historian for more than 40 years, and a professional historian for over 30, but as I read it, I was constantly encountering new ways of looking at my family history....Essential reading I would say!' Alan Crosby, WDYTYA Magazine

Tuesday 2 May 2017

Postcards from the Past



Writing postcards required a far lower degree of literacy, less effort, less time and even less physical space than its older equivalent - the letter.

Tracing Ancestors Through Letters and Personal Writings, Pen and Sword Books, 2017

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