Discover Your Ancestors
Issue 123
A warm welcome to the July issue of Discover Your Ancestors Periodical, your monthly digital mix of family and social history.
This issue has fallen into two main themes rather. One focuses on how images open up details of the past: for example, Nick Thorne and Nell Darby both found interesting pictures of bygone stars which took them on very different research paths; plus we have Jayne Shrimpton’s aptly seasonal guide to the history of seaside photography. And then there’s the other theme, encompassing two disasters at sea which led to – and I promise this wasn’t exactly intended as a theme! – desperate attempts to survive by, um, cannibalism. There’s all that and more in this issue, and I hope you enjoy it, grisly though some of it may be…
Andrew Chapman, Editor.