Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 61 (May 2018)

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Keep up to date with the genealogy world and learn more about your hobby with the critically acclaimed Discover Your Ancestors online periodical. Whether you are just starting out or have reached a brick wall in your research, this will help and inspire you on your family history journey. Receive guidance from experts, tips on the best sources for records, explore connections around the world and bring your ancestors to life.* Wash day every week: In the 19th and early 20th centuries, wash day was a major domestic ritual affecting the entire household, as Jayne Shrimpton explains
* The colour mauve: Nick Thorne traces the Perkin family's progress from apprentice leatherworkers to top scientists
* Turns of the wheel: Sharon Brookshaw explores the various revolutions in the relationship between cycling and society
* Read all about it: The Illustrated Police News brought Victorians a diet of sensationalist crime, but its appeal to the working-classes was a cause of concern, says Nell Darby
* Enlightened times: Harry Cunningham explores Scotland's intellectual, economic and cultural revolution from the 1700s
* History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on handkerchiefs