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Begins Tuesday 19 October 2004, 3.00-3.30 p.m |
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Sue Cook presents the series that examines listeners' historical queries, exploring avenues of research and uncovering mysteries. |
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General HistoryÌýWebsites
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FamilyÌýHistory
The UK and Ireland guide to genealogical resources in public libraries.
A portal site, provided by a consortium of national record offices and archives, that aims to give easy access to information and links to the main UK family history websites.
1 Myddelton Street, London EC1R 1UW
Tel (general enquiries): 020 8392 5300
Fax: 020 8392 5307
Textphone: 020 8392 5308
Email: frc@nationalarchives.gov.uk
Office for National Statistics:
Run jointly by the General Register Office (part of the Office for National Statistics) and The National Archives (formerly the Public Record Office). Among other material, the Family Records Centre holds indexes of births, marriages and deaths in England and Wales since 1837, and censuses 1841-1901.
The 1901 census can also be searched online at .
The genealogy site of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (the Mormons) with a database of over 600 million names.
PO Box 2425, Coventry CV5 6YX
Email: info@ffhs.org.ukÌý
Online bookshop:
The website includes information on getting started in family history, details of societies around the UK and a link to the FFHS's pay-per-view website of databases in England and Wales.
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Oral and SocialÌýHistory
96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB
Tel: 020 7412 7676
Email: nsa@bl.ukÌý
Has a huge variety of oral history collections, including the Millennium Memory Bank of interviews collected by ±«Óãtv local radio stations during 1999.
Colindale Avenue, London NW9 5HE
Tel: 020 7412 7353
Email: newspaper@bl.ukÌý
Has full collections of all national newspapers in Britain and Ireland, from the start of publication, plus many local and foreign language newspapers.
Lambeth Road, London SE1 6HZ
Tel: 020 7416 5363
Fax: 020 7416 5379
Email: sound@iwm.org.ukÌý
Britain's leading audio collection relating to every aspect of conflicts from the Boer War onwards.
The Library, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QL
Tel: 01273 678157
The Archive holds material about everyday life in Britain from 1937 to 1955, diaries and personal writing from 1937 to 1965, and some other small collections. In 1981 it began a new project to collect writing by ordinary people on particular themes.
c/o Department of History, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester CO4 3SQ
Tel: 020 7412 7405Ìý
The website has advice on how to get started in recording oral history, details of training courses, and how to join. Members receive a twice-yearly journal and have access to a network of local groups.
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Record Sources
Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU
Tel: 020 8876 3444
Email: enquiry@nationalarchives.gov.ukÌý
The national archives of England and Wales (previously the Public Record Office and the Historical Manuscripts Commission). Its catalogue (over 9 million document references) is accessible online, along with much other useful information.
Bishop Street, Dublin 8, Ireland
Tel: 00 353 1 407 2300
Fax: 00 353 1 407 2333
Email: mail@nationalarchives.ieÌý
HM General Register House, 2 Princes Street, Edinburgh EH1 3YY
Tel: 0131 535 1334
Fax: 0131 535 1328
Email: enquiries@nas.gov.ukÌý
Aberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 3BU
Tel: 01970 632800
Fax: 01970 615709
Email: holi@llgc.org.ukÌý
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Vanessa has presentedÌýscience and current affairs programmes for ±«Óãtv, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and Discovery and has presented for ±«Óãtv Radio 4 & Five Live and a regular contributor to the Daily Telegraph and the Mail on Sunday, Scotsman and Sunday Herald.Ìý