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19/08/2025

Photography has long played a vital role in recording social history, offering visual testimony to the experiences of ordinary people often overlooked in written records. While official histories frequently centre on governments, institutions, and elites, social documentary photographers turn their lenses towards everyday life, capturing the nuances of work, leisure, family, and community. Their images act as both evidence and narrative, enabling future generations to see how people lived, what they valued, and how society changed.In Britain, social-history photography developed strongly during the twentieth century, reflecting rapid shifts in industry, class structures, and cultural identity....

Photography has long played a vital role in recording social history, offering visual testimony to the experiences of ordinary people often overlooked in written records. While official histories f…

19/08/2025

Margaret was purebred royalty, the kind you’d normally expect to be draped in velvet rather than staring at the headsman’s axe. Margaret Pole was born in 1473 with the very inconvenient surname of Plantagenet. In an age when kings were suspicious of anyone with even a whiff of royal blood, she was practically a walking threat. Her father was George, Duke of Clarence, brother to King Edward IV and Richard III, and her mother was Isabel Neville, daughter of the notorious “Kingmaker” Warwick....

Margaret was purebred royalty, the kind you’d normally expect to be draped in velvet rather than staring at the headsman’s axe. Margaret Pole was born in 1473 with the very inconvenient surname of …

09/08/2025

Time for the tissues & ugly crying - Relative Race, where adoptees race around the US to find unknown biological family..

Maria was adopted as a baby and never knew her biological family—until now. She discovers she has 17 total siblings and meets her birth mom and dad for the f...

08/08/2025

Hereward the Wake, also known as Hereward the Outlaw or Exile stands as one of the most enduring figures of Anglo‑Saxon resistance to the Norman Conquest. Operating from the impenetrable Isle of Ely in the Fenlands, he became the symbol of defiance against William the Conqueror. His life straddles the line between documented history and myth-making, rendering him a fascinating subject for historians, novelists, and folklore enthusiasts alike....

Hereward the Wake, also known as Hereward the Outlaw or Exile stands as one of the most enduring figures of Anglo‑Saxon resistance to the Norman Conquest. Operating from the impenetrable Isle of El…

06/08/2025

In a world where travel is more accessible than ever, and where technology brings the globe to our fingertips, ancestral heritage travel is emerging as a meaningful and deeply personal journey. Unlike the typical holiday, heritage travel is about connection: to family, to history, and to the places and stories that shaped who we are. Whether you're trekking through the villages your great-grandparents once called home or diving into street maps from your living room, the journey of exploring your roots is one that transcends borders....

In a world where travel is more accessible than ever, and where technology brings the globe to our fingertips, ancestral heritage travel is emerging as a meaningful and deeply personal journey. Unl…

05/08/2025

Very sad. Birthlink a charity in Scotland shredded 4800 personal files, of which some contained photos and letters from birth parents, mainly associated with forced adoptions.
Read more about forced adoptions in Scotland here; https://www.gov.scot/publications/scoping-study-historic-forced-adoption-final-report/pages/4/

Birthlink has been fined £18,000 after shredding the files to free up space in its filing cabinets four years ago.

04/08/2025

Belonging...

04/08/2025

Blood brother's at war..

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04/08/2025

Who is more genetically diverse?

Did you know that everyone outside of Africa comes from 10,000 people...? What does it take to tell the greatest story never written do...

19/07/2025

Very true, always look at original documentation and there may also be additional information that's not in the transcription.

19/07/2025

For centuries, the Ainu people of northern Japan were pushed to the margins, culturally, politically and scientifically. Once nearly erased by assimilation policies, their story is now being told through one of the most powerful tools we have: their DNA. As researchers uncover more about the genetic legacy of the Ainu, it’s becoming clear that these Indigenous people are key to understanding the true origins of Japan—and perhaps even parts of humanity's journey across Asia....

For centuries, the Ainu people of northern Japan were pushed to the margins,  culturally, politically and scientifically. Once nearly erased by assimilation policies, their story is now being …

19/06/2025