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  • Who Do You Think You Are?

    SOCIETIES IN SICKNESS

    Apr 06, 2021 3 minutes
    Alan Crosby shares his views on family history
    Why go to a talk in a chilly hall if you can see it at home?

    The lockdowns continue as I write. Among my tasks for the next fortnight are preparing a Zoom talk on crime in a Lancashire town in the 17th century for a family history society, and collating the material for four online talks about bastardy and illegitimacy between 1600 and 1900. They

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