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

Public Record Office

The Public Record Office of the United Kingdom is one of the three organisations that make up the National Archives...

 for 20 years. His history-related articles have appeared in Local History Magazine, Family Tree Magazine, History Today

History Today

History Today is an illustrated history magazine. Published monthly in London since January 1951, it is the world's leading, and possibly oldest, history magazine. Its successful mission has always been to present serious and authoritative history to as wide a public as possible...

, 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.

Works

• Family History Starter Pack, The National Archives
• Family Skeletons: Exploring the lives of our disreputable ancestors, with Ruth Paley
  Ruth Paley
  Dr Ruth Paley PhD is an English historian and author.She has worked at the Public Record Office in Kew, London, where she has written several books...
  
  , 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

External links

• Fowler's 2008 biography at Penwin
• Ancestors Magazine site inactive and magazine no longer being published
• Fowler's 2001 history site