If you have a Nintendo Wii games console, you can use it to watch all your favourite family history television and radio programmes on your television via a new dedicated and relaunched BBC iPlayer channel. Until now, the BBC iPlayer has been...

A Victoria Cross presented to Flight Lieutenant Bill Reid in 1944 by King George VI has reached £335,000 at auction. Reid previously resided at Crieff in Perthshire, where he died in 2001, though was born in Glasgow's Baillieston, and was awarded the...

The FindmyPast website (http://www.findmypast.com/) has been given a mini overhaul. From the company's blog, a brief description of the changes: •a new look and feel for the main pages of the site to make it easier to navigate and find what you...

Genealogist Sheena Tait, originally from Scotland, and now residing down south, has a very handy summary of online military history records worth consulting for the First World War on her blog at http://setait.co.uk/?p=109&cpage=1#comment-8 Well...

The Queen's speech was given just a few hours ago, but how many of us knew that the Queen had a hostage waiting in Buckingham Palace?! I always thought the Government did not negotiate with kidnappers these days in a hostage situation... Some...