During the Summer of 1915 a large tented military camp was established in fields in the St Albans area but its location is uncertain. A g...

Yesterday my software diverted an email into my spam box - nothing unusual about that as it happens several times a day. However it seeme...

Hertfordshire Family History Society Meeting 19th November The Enumerator Strikes Back (A look at the census enumerator's wor...

The General Registry Office ( www.gro.gov.uk ) has now launched a new search (and order) facility for historic birth and death certificates ...

Nurse Elizabeth Phillips Where a village like Preston is well covered by a local historian with an excellent web site such as A Histor...

The area of the Fontmell Close as it was in about 1900 I gave my talk " Brick Pits and other old holes " to t he St Albans ...

Watford Poisoning Case.    The Servant Confesses that She Put Belladonna in the Rice Pudding.   The medical practitioners who were ca...

The St Albans & District Local History Network Annual Conference is to be held in the Verulamium Museum next Saturday (22nd October) a...

Sometimes when you are doing research you get carried away with a side issue - and my recent investigation into the identity of a post ca...