Hurricanes and heatwaves

Ruth A Symes explains how you can find out how the weather affected your ancestors’ lives

Historic maps

Gill Blanchard reveals the historic maps and plans from the 1500s to the 1900s that will transform your family research

THE GAZETTE

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Behind the scenes: Ed Balls

WDYTYA? genealogist Sara Khan reveals celebrity records

The Civitas Londinium map, 1633

Laurence Ward from London Metropolitan Archives unfolds the oldest surviving map of the capital

Around Britain: Northumberland

Jonathan Scott visits north-east England to find out what Northumberland has to offer family historians

Your projects

Rosemary Collins meets the researcher uncovering the forgotten history of Lincolnshire’s pubs

The big picture

Celebrating our ancestors caught on camera

Off the record

Alan Crosby considers the domestic tragedies that lay in wait for our Victorian ancestors

What’s On

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