Der Autor untersucht die Auswirkungen des Zweiten Weltkriegs auf seine Familie, indem er dem Weg seines Großvaters nach Weißrussland folgt und dabei Verbindungen zu seiner eigenen Vergangenheit und den Kriegsträumen entdeckt, die ihn seit seiner Kindheit verfolgen.
Mit der Vertreibung der Hugenotten aus dem nordfranzösischen Pas de Calais beginnt Ende 1685 die abenteuerliche Flucht der Familie Tisse quer durch Europa.
Von wem habe ich das bloß – Eine spannende Reise auf den Spuren der AhnenIn Von wem habe ich das bloß begibt sich Manuel Andrack auf eine abenteuerliche Spurensuche in die eigene Familiengeschichte.
So schließen wir Frieden mit unserer VergangenheitNatalia und Terry O'Sullivan zeigen in ihrem Ratgeber mithilfe anschaulicher Beispiele und einfacher Übungen, wie wir alte Verletzungen in unserer Familie erkennen und die Traumata unserer Vorfahren heilen können.
Sich mit seiner Herkunft zu befassen, also nicht nur eine Autobiographie zu schreiben, sondern gleichzeitig Ahnenforschung zu betreiben, ist im späteren Alter eine hochinteressante Angelegenheit.
When Sybil and Blanche Le Fleur were growing up in idyllic Burma in the 1920s and '30s, little did they realise the changes and challenges that they would face during their lives.
'A very readable history of the British way of life viewed through its homes' Choice MagazineIn recent years house histories have become the new frontier of popular, participatory history.
'Full of violence and passion' Elle Suffering the recent loss of her beloved grandfather and newly committed to a career in journalism, Delphine Minoui decided to visit Iran for the first time since the revolution - since she was four years old.
The popularity of Family History has increased over the past five years due to TV shows like Genealogy Roadshow, Finding Your Roots, and Who Do You Think You Are?
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK'A superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house which was lived in, and lost, by five different families.
'A work of extraordinary depth; people are going to be unpicking the secrets of Tremaine for years to come' Richard Swan, Sunday Times bestselling authorAll legends are born of truths.
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From Alison Pick, the Man-Booker longlisted author of FAR TO GO, comes an unforgettable memoir about family secrets, depression, and the author's journey to reconnect with her Jewish identity.
Whether you're eager to hold on to EU citizenship post-Brexit or simply interested in exploring your family's past, learn how to research and document your Irish ancestry with this essential guide, newly updated to include the latest genealogy tools.
The Rainborowes bridges two generations and two worlds, weaving together the lives of the Rainborowe clan as they struggle to forge a better life for themselves and a better future for humankind in the New World.
'With this one word, Lili had finally understood many things: that no matter what she promised or sacrificed or gave, she would always be 'broken' to her daughter.
Faringdon House in Oxfordshire was the home of Lord Berners, composer, writer, painter, friend of Stravinsky and Gertrude Stein, a man renowned for his eccentricity masks, practical jokes, a flock of multi-coloured doves and his homosexuality.
Following the partitioning of Poland by Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939, Matthew Kelly's great grandmother and her two daughters were deported to the East.
Bowen's Court describes the history of one Anglo-Irish family in County Cork from the Cromwellian settlement until 1959, when Elizabeth Bowen was forced to sell the family house she loved.
When Gillian Tindall discovered a cache of tightly folded letters in a deserted house in central France, recently emptied of 150 years of a family's possessions, she uncovered the obscure and moving life of one woman, Celestine Chaumette.
In this remarkable book, Jane Miller writes about the experience of being a daughter and a sister, about the intensities of family life and the illuminations that come from the last days of parents.
Fascinating and authoritative of Britain's royal families from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I to Queen Victoria, by leading popular historian Alison Weir 'George III is alleged to have married secretly, on 17th April, 1759, a Quakeress called Hannah Lightfoot.
