Uncover the milestones in your ancestors' lives
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By Daisy Goddard | August 28, 2026
Discover essential English additions this week.
We've added a new set of Southwark marriage records this week, and updated three existing will and burial collections.
Spanning 414 years, these important new additions will help you to trace key moments within your family tree.
Surrey, Southwark Marriages and Banns
This brand-new collection consists of 15,554 marriage records from Southwark, covering 1810 to 1942.
London, Archdeaconry Court of London Wills Index, 1549-1807
We've updated our Archdeaconry Court of London Wills Index with 1,608 new additions this week.
Greater London Burial Index
We also updated our Greater London Burial Index, with 78,546 new records to explore spanning almost 300 years.
Cumberland Burials
We also bolstered our collection of Cumberland burial records, with 2,6645 new additions covering 1528 to 1921.
New pages from Weston-super-Mare to Wellington
261,444 pages joined our newspaper archive this week, with six brand new titles and updates to 25 of our existing publications.
New titles:
- Comet (Dublin), 1831–1833
- Daily Sketch, 1919
- Eastern Bengal and Assam Era, 1907–1908, 1910–1914
- Labour Union Journal, 1892
- Middlesbrough Weekly News and Cleveland Advertiser, 1877
- Monmouthshire Chronicle, 1875–1877
- Wellington Weekly News, 1876, 1879
Updated titles:
- Banbury Beacon, 1870–1879, 1890
- Bishop's Castle Advertiser and Clun News, 1919
- Carlisle Express and Examiner, 1877, 1880, 1889
- Chelmsford Chronicle, 2005
- Crystal Palace District Times & Advertiser, 1951
- Daylight, 1890, 1892
- Downpatrick Recorder, 1865, 1875–1877
- Eastbourne Herald, 2005
- Falmouth News Slip, 1883, 1885–1887
- Grimsby News, 1950
- Hampstead & Highgate Express, 1912–1913, 1919
- Harrogate Advertiser and Weekly List of the Visitors, 2005
- Holborn and Finsbury Guardian, 1951
- Kilburn Times, 1919
- London Evening Standard, 1919
- Nenagh Guardian, 1838–1845, 1880
- North Middlesex Chronicle, 1870
- Rushcliffe Advertiser, 1890–1895
- South Wales Echo, 2003
- Southend Standard and Essex Weekly Advertiser, 1919
- St. Pancras Guardian and Camden and Kentish Towns Reporter, 1899
- Staffordshire Sentinel, 1997–1999, 2001, 2005
- Times of India, 1910–1911, 1938
- Western Daily Press, 2001
- Weston Mercury, 1897
A Family History Of... Peterloo: Britain's Forgotten Massacre
Memories carved in wood and painted on china. Objects tell us a story of violence remembered and contested.
For this bonus episode, Jen Baldwin is joined by Jenny Mabbott from Manchester’s People’s History Museum to explore how items left behind carry the meaning of the Peterloo Massacre forward.
