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An Empire Flag Day fundraiser for hospitals in London to provide healthcare before the NHS

What was healthcare like before the NHS?

Nurses at the Sir William Hospital treat shell shock victims during the First World War with experimental medical equipment

What is shell shock?

Women students at Girton College, Cambridge, c.1900

The history of student life: your questions answered

Ruth Jones on Who Do You Think You Are?

Behind the scenes on the new series of Who Do You Think You Are?

Manorial records. A farm worker ties bundles of wheat reaped by his colleague operating a harvester in Sussex, June 1887

Discover your past

What are manorial records?

David Walliams on Who Do You Think You Are?

Who will appear on Who Do You Think You Are? 2020?

Birthday party in India

My Family Album Some of my favourite photographs

VE Day celebrations in Cowley

My Family Album Meet my family from Cowley

RAF bomber crew c1940

Discover your past

How to find and use RAF Operation Record Books

Black and white photograph of a family looking at photo albums

The best family history activities for children

Aneira Thomas, first baby born on the NHS

“I’m known as the pin-up girl of the NHS”

Children sit in front of their bombed-out house in London's East End during the Blitz

What was the Blitz, when did it start and how long did it last?

Bronislawa Kokoszka's ID card

Family hero Nana and Grandad escaped the Nazis

The Declaration of Arbroath

DNA and the Declaration of Arbroath

Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine December 2020

Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine index