What was school like for Grandma? What was your Great Uncle's first job? What can we find out from old photos, documents and objects? 

This inclusive introduction encourages young history detectives to discover more about the people, places, and significant events within their own locality and family. It also provides a compact way for them to record all their findings. There are suggestions for questions to ask older members of the community and ideas for topics to explore, from toys and games to clothes, hairstyles, food, transport, and holidays, in order to find out just how much things have changed within living memory. Helps children develop research and writing skills and builds into a unique personal record. Suitable for children of any family background, including adopted, fostered, and looked-after children. Ties into many school work assignments that require children to be able to talk about past and present events in their own lives and the lives of family members. The book allows children to create a self-contained family tree. The write-in pages and the prompts encourage kids to write down their own family stories, too.

This book is "sort of" written by Jane Bingham: she provides the ideas. But really, it's written by YOU (or by the lucky kid you give this book to).

Spiral Bound Hardcover, 96 pages. 2026.