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Q: How did women cope with everyday life during the First World War? D...

January 15, 2017
The subject of women and how they coped with life during the war offers a real range of topics to explore. The image of women during the war which often springs to mind is of smiling girls in munitio...

Q: Can you help with some ideas for starting research on what was happ...

August 4, 2016
There are quite a few sources which can help with uncovering the local story and it might help to think in terms of the particular areas in which you are interested. The men who went away: the obviou...

Q: Can you help with ideas for researching the availability and use of...

August 2, 2016
Answer: This was a really interesting question which came in to us from an HLF project in Arundel (www.arundelmuseum.org ). We sent out a request for help to members of the Centre. Owen Davies, who h...

Q: Why, when tracing ancestor FWW service, do you sometimes see fracti...

July 31, 2016
Answer (With thanks to Nicholas Mansfield): At the beginning of the war, part-time regiments of the Territorial Force, were each asked to raise a separate second line unit, as part of the enormous ex...
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