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If you type two or more words, you will get results that contain all of those words.
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Use double quotation marks, eg "Manchester Store" to search for an exact phrase.
To widen your search use 'OR', eg Salford OR Manchester, which will turn up all the records that have got either of those words.
Narrow your search by using 'NOT' between the words. For instance typing 'Railway NOT station' would return records about railways that don't mention stations.

To find all items dating up to a certain year, enter that year in the ‘to’ box. Years have been entered in the format YYYY, eg 1947.
To find all items dating from a certain year onwards, enter that year in the ‘from’ box.
If you’d like to restrict your search to a particular year, put that year in both date boxes.
To find items from a specific time span fill in the ‘from’ and ‘to’ boxes, eg ‘from’ 1941 ‘to’ 1954.
You can also use an approximate date using the format ‘c1980’ or search for decades, eg 1980s.
Use the main search box to look for a specific date, eg 18 Jan 1939.

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