Search - List of Books by Simon Fowler
"Get up and dance, get up and smile, get up and drink to the days that are gone in the shortest while." -- Simon Fowler
Simon Fowler is an English social historian and author.
Fowler is currently editor of Ancestors, the family history magazine of the National Archives, and has written many books relating to family and social history. He edited Family History Monthly from 2000 to 2004. He was archivist at the Public Record Office for 20 years. His history-related articles have appeared in Local History Magazine, Family Tree Magazine, History Today, BBC History Magazine and several academic journals. He was secretary of Labour Heritage, the Labour Oral History Project and the Friendly Societies Research Group. He is also active with the London Archive Users Forum and the Brewery and Pub History societies.
- Family History Starter Pack, The National Archives
- Family Skeletons ... Exploring the lives of our disreputable ancestors, with Ruth Paley, National Archives, 2005, ISBN 1-903365-54-6
- The Joy of Family History, 2001
- Workhouse ... the people, the places, the life behind doors
- Tracing Your First World War Ancestors
- Tracing Your Second World War Ancestors
- Tracing Your army Ancestors
- Starting Out in Local History
- Tracing Irish Ancestors
- (2007) A Guide to Military History on the Internet, UK:Pen & Sword, ISBN 9781844156061
Total Books: 41