Current Issue

A warm welcome to the June issue of Discover Your Ancestors Periodical, your regular mix of family and social history stories, explorations and advice.

London's Ratcliffe Highway has seen its fair share of dramas over the last couple of hundred years, from murders to the tale of an escaped tiger which Nell Darby explores in this issue – she also has her own fascinating project unearthing more recent tales from this thoroughfare, as you can read inside. On a different kind of dramatic note, Stephen Wade looks at the rise of 'penny readings' in Victorian times, a way in which a wide variety of material could reach the ordinary public. Podcats of their day, almost? All that and much more inside!

And do remember our print editions too, packed with different articles: find a wealth of back issues at the DYA website.

I hope you enjoy this issue.

Andrew Chapman, Editor.