With the Ryder Cup much in the news at the moment, we thought we’d post two newspaper reports about the first two years of the famous tournament. The first story reports on the build-up to the match that took place at Wentworth in early June 1926. This story also reports that Mr Samuel Ryder has [...]

Being a curious bunch, we did a quick search in the Archive to see what we could find out about William Roache’s family ancestors. We searched for the surname, ‘Waddicor’, and then used the website’s filtering options to find stories for the late 19th Century in the Blackpool and Darwen areas - which is where William’s family lived. [...]

We really enjoyed hearing about the ancestors of William Roache in last night’s episode of ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ In particular, we loved learning about the evolution of Blackpool as a blingy mecca for tourists, and the very interesting role that William’s ancestors played in the development of the city. If you live [...]

The ancestors of William Roache are up for inspection in tonight’s episode of ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ We’re especially looking forward to learning about his entrepreneurial great-grandfather, who dealt in some very unusual wares in 19th Century Blackpool.  Curious and curiouser. . . We hope that, as in last week’s show on Alex [...]

Erich Maria Remarque, author of ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’, died on 25 September 1970. To remember his life and writing, we thought we’d post this newspaper review from 1929 of his famous anti-war novel, and also a newspaper advert for the same book. The Archive contains scores of interesting news stories about Erich [...]

It’s amazing the stories that can be found in the Archive. We could easily spend all day there, reading stories about historical events, famous people and our own family ancestors! As Branwell Bronte died on 24 September 1848, we thought we’d do quick search to see if we could find any newspaper reports of his [...]

We really enjoyed watching the programme about Alex Kingston’s ancestors in this week’s episode of ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ We especially liked the information that Alex discovered by searching in historical newspapers. We did a quick search for one of Alex Kingston’s family ancestors (Elizabeth Braham) in the Archive and found the following [...]

The ancestors of Alex Kingston will be featured in tonight’s episode of Who Do You Think You Are? In addition to learning about the death of her great-grandfather in World War One, Alex will be trying to discover if there is any Jewish ancestry in her family tree. In the trailer for the programme, it [...]

If you’re in the Hull area on Saturday 29 September, then you might like to attend the Family History Fair that the East Yorkshire Family History Society is organising. The venue is the Costello Stadium, and the admission price is £1 (children get in for free) – oh, and there’s free parking, too! The fair [...]

30 June On 30 June 1894, Tower Bridge in London was officially opened by the Prince of Wales http://bit.ly/14mWPTV 29 June Lady Randolph Churchill, the American mother of Winston, died on 29 June 1921, aged 67 http://bit.ly/104ncOK 28 June In Sarajevo on 28 June 1914, Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian [...]