Here’s something that someone said to us the other day:

‘Why would I want a Family History Film when I can record everything on my smartphone at no cost? And my nephew Kevin can put it all together on a slideshow for me’.

You can, of course, record much of your day to day life on a smartphone.  But can you do all of the following?

Here at Family History Films we are great admirers of VintageWeddingPhotos on both Twitter and Instagram, so we asked Charlotte Sibtain, who runs it, a few questions:

There's something fascinating about looking at Vintage Wedding Photos. Can you put your finger on what exactly it is?

Do you remember it like this – or like this? Memory can play tricks on what happened but a published story of your life can’t…

Those of us lucky enough to have lived in largely peaceful times and not obliged to go to war may naturally be shocked by recent divisions created by binary politics – notable examples being the UK and USA in the last couple of years – which not only divide society but in some cases, families.