This is a release from the NLS.
We are also pleased to add online over 200 maps of Great Britain in the 19th and 20th centuries. These maps present an excellent overview of England, Scotland and Wales, and sometimes including Ireland, showing specific subjects such as roads, railways, air travel, population, power generation, rainfall and housing, as well as things like changing administrative divisions. Some of these expand our coverage of the Ordnance Survey’s Ten-mile to the Inch (1:625,000) Planning maps series, initiated in the 1940s, and intended to form a survey of national life and resources. Others include military maps showing barracks and military districts, as well as maps to illustrate specific historical time periods, such as Ancient Britain, Britain in the Dark Ages, Roman Britain, and Monastic Britain.
We have divided these maps into the Ordnance Survey “ten mile” Planning maps, other Ordnance Survey small-scale maps, and maps by other publishers:
Perhaps your attention is immediately grabbed by MAPS on this magazine cover.
Mostly derived from newspaper listings are the following updates.
I was surprised to find a reference to this mural monument in a book I recently reviewed. The image is from the Illustrated London News of 17 November 1855; the monument in the Cathedral Church of St Paul in London, Ontario. It pays tribute to Lt. Col. Chester and the men of the 23rd Royal Welch Fusiliers who fell at the Battle of Alma during the Crimean War (October 1853 – February 1856).
No travelling. No expensive hotels and restaurant meals. All the conveniences of home. Registration is now open. for the 24 -26 June Ontario Ancestors (OGS to its friends) conference.
As people die, and some become centenarians, their records in the 1939 Register for England and Wales are opened. This addition is 117,965 records.