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Pioneering re-weave for Georgian carpet: 250 years on • For the first time in more than 40 years, visitors can enjoy one of Britain’s finest early Georgian interiors as its designer intended, after its Axminster was recreated by the firm whose founder wove the original in the same Devon town in 1770

Selected digital English and Welsh birth and death records now available from the GRO • Those researching births and deaths in England and Wales have now come a step closer to their Irish and Scottish counterparts with a move towards making these records available digitally.

£3.5M makeover for iconic Menin Gate • The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) has started restoration work on the iconic Ypres memorial which commemorates more than 54,000 missing Commonwealth service personnel from the First World War

Women’s lockdown experience exhibition • Women’s written experiences of the first phase of the UK’s lockdown are at the heart of ‘Rooms of Our Own’: the lockdown house at the House of Commons in London

Nationwide history project discovers rare stories and objects • Their Finest Hour is a nationwide project safeguarding the memories of the Second World War for future generations through mass digitisation of Second World War stories and objects

Sussex record offices celebrate 10 million record views • Over the last three years West Sussex Record Office and East Sussex and Brighton and Hove Record Office have been working in partnership with Ancestry to put millions of historic records online and are celebrating a landmark 10 million views of their historic records

Find your ancestors on the 1931 Canada census • FindMyPast & Ancestry have announced the addition of the 1931 Canada Census to their record collections, with 234,606 images now available to browse on FindMyPast, while the collection is browsable and searchable on Ancestry.

Can you help the Ministry of Defence shape their medal services? • The Ministry of Defence are working on a digital service that will issue previously unclaimed medals and are looking for people to take part in their research

Cemetery group remembers the ‘forgotten’ dead • Friends of Horton Cemetery is working to ensure that the lives of those who were patients in the Epsom cluster of asylums, many of whom were buried in unmarked graves, are not forgotten

SLOW DOWN & Plan Your Research • Genealogy educator Fiona Brooker is here to help you slow down and establish some genealogy research practices that will stand you in good stead for years to come.

UNDERSTANDING GENEALOGICAL SOURCES & why it matters • In part 1 of his new 3-part series, genealogist Phil Isherwood takes a look at the nature of the sources we use as we research our family histories, to help us clarify the types of sources we may encounter and – most importantly of all – to assess how reliable we may deduce them to be

STILL MANY MORE PLACES TO TRY... • Revisiting a record she first bumped into some time ago, Gill Shaw sets off on the trail of her 2x great-aunt Catherine Mary Riboldi

HOW FAMILY HISTORY CAN PROVIDE CHILDREN WITH LIFE SKILLS & RESILIENCE • In this series of articles professional genealogist Emma Jolly will be examining the many facets of family...