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The world of family, local and social history has changed immeasurably over the last decade. As a young amateur family historian, I remember searching those enormous […]

The Historical Hospital Admission Records Project has been in existence since 2001 and is a project to create a database of late nineteenth and early twentieth […]

Ever wondered what it was like to live in the first million person city in modern Western Europe? London Lives makes available, in a fully digitised […]

Most family historians will find their ancestors living and/or working in London at one point in time or another. This week, we are going to focus […]

Thomas John Elford Oats was the second eldest son of Thomas and Ellen Symons (nee Elford) Oats. Passing on the mother’s maiden name as a middle […]

Heading to this year’s Winter Olympics at the Russian coastal resort of Sochi, the expectations are running as high as they’ve ever been for the Australian […]

Ice Hockey is a fast paced team sport placed on ice, requiring good levels of skill, speed, agility and endurance. Ice hockey made its first appearance […]

Ski jumping was developed in the late nineteenth century in Norway with the aim of the discipline being to jump as far as possible and then […]

Curling is a team sport which evolved in Scotland in the sixteenth century and is played on a rectangular sheet of ice, specially prepared for the […]