Britain's Public Record Office is the rough equivalent of the U.S. National Archives. This is an essential guide to tracing English, Scottish and Irish ancestors through the office's vast collection of census records, military service records, court documents, wills, and other sources.

Tracing Your Ancestors in Public Record Office

Reference

Bevan, Amanda

Genealogy

Public Record Office

This is a revised edition of a guide to the exploration of the voluminous records of Chancery equity proceedings in the Public Record Office. It takes account of the results of the transfer of these records to Kew, to assure the guide's continuing availability to researchers. Additions include an appendix analyzing the contents of the Bernau Index and providing guidelines for its use, a review of the location and organization of the main finding aids to Chancery equity records at Kew, and a description of newly-completed listings of Chancery classes. The text also incorporates the results of ongoing research on Chancery (and Exchequer) equity proceedings.

A guide to chancery equity records and proceedings, 16600-1800 (Public Record Office handbook)

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Britain developed contingency plans to assassinate Hitler at Berchtesgaden during World War II. Britain's Public Record Office has recently released all the original plans, including color sketches of the grounds and guard uniforms.

Operation Foxley: The British Plan to Kill Hitler

History

Introduction by Mark Seaman

Military

Official history of Britain's Security Service in the first half of the twentieth century

SECURITY SERVICE 1908 - 1945: The Official History

Currey, John

Europe

Juan Pujol, alias "Garbo," was the first major double agent in the history of espionage. Britain's Public Record Office has recently released this account of his wartime deception of the Germans, with an introduction on British intelligence in World War II.

Garbo: The Spy who Saved D-Day

From the Sitzkrieg and Battle of Britain, through thousand-bomber raids, to the fall of Japan, the RAF's role in defence and attack is dramatically portrayed in this book in reproduction photographs, posters and artwork. The great majority of this work is previously unpublished.

Raf in Action: 1939-1945

Nesbit, Roy

Yan Yean : a history of Melbourne"s early water supply.

Science & Math

Dingle, Tony and Doyle, Helen

Nature & Ecology

This wartime account recently released by Britain's Public Record Office reveals details of British interrogation of captured German agents and the British counter-espionage effort in World War II.

Camp 020: M15 and the Nazi Spies

Hoare, Oliver

Introduction by Oliver Hoare

The Genealogist's Internet starts by explaining how the Internet works for the beginner. It continues by detailing the major sources of primary data available to family historians on-line Written with British researchers in mind, this Guide is especially useful to those seeking English, Scottish, Irish or Welsh ancestors.

GENEALOGIST'S INTERNET (Genealogist's Guides.)

Christian, Peter

Facsimiles of 12 crucial documents with an 8-page illustrated introduction

Sinking of The Bismark Document Pack (Battlefront)

National Archives (UK)

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