Its Your History

Our new This Day in History section is now available, containing articles relating to events, births, and deaths on specific dates. As well as anniversaries of events of the current day, events can be displayed for a weekly, monthly or yearly period, and a search facility is also included.

The daily articles are also provided as an rss feed entitled Today In History. To view the feed, with the option of subscribing please click the feed image below. You are also welcome to include our syndicated content  on your website providing article links remain intact, and the articles are not modified. Please see our terms and conditions for details.

Today in History (new articles daily); Articles relating to events, births and deaths that happened today in history.

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To keep up to date with our latest history articles, and product releases we provide rss feeds rather than emails and newsletters. To view a feed, with the option of subscribing please clicka feed image below below. You are also welcome to include our syndicated content  on your website providing article links remain intact, and the articles are not modified. Please see our terms and conditions for details.

The Archive (new articles daily); History articles relating to images in our archive. Subjects include Aviation History, Cricket History, Genealogy, Military History, Naval History, Portsmouth History, Rugby History, Soccer History, and Theatre History

Naval History; Naval History articles from the archive.

Portsmouth History; Portsmouth History articles from the archive.

General History Articles (new articles daily); History articles in general covering a broad range of subjects.

Today in History (new articles daily); Articles relating to events, births and deaths that happened today in history.

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We are pleased to announce today the launch of the frst of our research services entitled Who lived in my house? If you and are interested to know who resided in an old  property in the Portsmouth area a hundred years or so ago, and their occupation, simply complete and submit our online search request form, we will research our archive for free (for a limited time only), email you our findings and a price to reproduce tham as a pdf file. Should you wish to purchase the file we have a minimum order of £2.50 and images are charged at £1.00 per image.

You can chose which years you are interested in, we can perform an index search on the 1801 Portsmouth Telegraph, search for the address in our Portsmouth Directories between 1863 and 1918, and also cross reference the resident in The National Roll of The Great War 1914-1918 Portsmouth, and provide the entry which will include a brief discription of their contribution to the First World War, along with the address.

For a free search please click here. (for a limited time only)

KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF PORTSMOUTH,PORTSEA LANDPORT,SOUTHSEA, & SUBURBS 1917

Kelly’s Directories are well known today as publishers of the country’s leading industrial directory, but the company began by listing the residents and social infrastructure of Britain’s major towns.  This directory is an invaluable guide to those wanting an insight into the people of Portsmouth and the surrounding area, and the way they lived over a hundred  years ago. Streets are listed along with the occupants of each building. A directory of surnames and addresses, a trade directory, local information and contemporary advertisements are also included. (921 images)

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