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Crowds outside Buckingham Palace on VJ Day 1945 (colourised by MyHeritage)

When is VJ Day?

The lobby of The National Archives with a one-way system in place due to coronavirus

The National Archives to increase document ordering limit

An Ancestry family tree

Blackstone buys Ancestry for $4.7 billion

A view of the entrance to The National Archives

The National Archives to reopen with restrictions on 21 July

New Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine website

Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine launches new-look website

Scientists will use DNA test results to research susceptibility to coronavirus

‘Time is of the essence’: family historians urged to submit DNA test results to coronavirus study

Helen Osborn and Karen Cummings

Former tutor takes over Pharos Tutors genealogy academy

Match Workers

‘It would be a terrible loss’: Strike leader’s grave under threat from building works

TNA

Archives to reopen ‘September at the earliest’

Hans Christian Andersen baptism image

MyHeritage offers free access to a different record collection every day in June

CWGC D-Day_image

Commonwealth War Graves Commission to help families mark D-Day anniversary

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Tickets go on sale for The Family History Show Online

History begins at home

Social media campaign encourages family connections under lockdown

Edinburgh International Book Festival 2017

When is the new series of A House Through Time on TV, where is it set and what it is about?

Cockney Sparrows

Ancestry London Metropolitan Archives collection free to access until 31 May