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Under Fire: Essex and the Second World War
Ahead of his talk at ERO to launch his brand new book on Essex in the Second World War, we caught up with author Paul Rusiecki to find out more about his research. Join us for Paul’s talk at Dark Days...
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Major Essex Ancestors update: remaining wills now all online
Essex Ancestors, our online subscription service which allows users to view digital images of historic parish registers and wills, has undergone its latest major update. Our collections include about...
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Chelmsford Then and Now: 4-5 High Street – Crane Inn, Spalding’s, Natwest
In this third post in our series looking at the history of Chelmsford High Street, Ashleigh Hudson looks at nos. 4-5 High Street through the centuries. Find out more about the project here. The current...
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Researching vintage and classic vehicles
Do you own a historic vehicle and are curious about its past? The Essex Record Office holds the first registration details for over 750,000 cars, motorbikes, tractors, trucks and other vehicles...
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Essex Book Festival: interview with Jonathan Swan, author of Chelmsford in...
Ahead of his talk at ERO as part of the Essex Book Festival, we caught up with author Jonathan Swan, whose new book Chelmsford in the Great War is just about to be published. Join us for Jonathan’s...
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We Will Remember Them: North Primary School Roll of Honour
This guest post is written by Laura Davison, project officer for We Will Remember Them. This HLF-funded school project has used documents stored at ERO and included a visit to ERO for the pupils...
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ERO is stronger with Friends: purchase of the Saulez collection
The Friends of Historic Essex are a charity which supports the ERO. Throughout the centenary of the First World War, the Friends and ERO are working together on the Essex Great War Archive Project,...
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Where there’s a will: Richard Leget of Hornchuch
We have just uploaded digital images of a further 22,500 wills to our Essex Ancestors online subscription service (more on this here), and to mark the occasion here we take a look at one of our...
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‘Tipling’, ‘idle life’ and ‘common badgers’
Katharine Schofield and Hannah Salisbury This year, for the first time, we are running a workshop on our Quarter Sessions records. These records provide fascinating glimpses into hundreds of years of...
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Where there’s a will: major update to Essex Ancestors
We love wills here at ERO. These fascinating and incredibly useful documents can tell us all sorts of things about the lives of people in the past, and are a brilliant resource for genealogists and...
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