Lord Williams's School in Thame is one of the most heavily researched and written about schools in the UK. This is providing a deep understanding of the history of education in the country that is almost impossible to find elsewhere. While only 20 pages this is just one of many invaluable source materials, written by Gerald Howat, a teacher, a celebrated archivist, and in particular a writer about the English cricket game.
The British country house has long been regarded as the jewel in the nation's heritage crown. But the country house is also an expression of wealth and power, and as scholars reconsider the nation's colonial past, new questions are being posed about these great houses and their links to Atlantic slavery.This book, authored by a range of academics and heritage professionals, grew out of a 2009 conference on 'Slavery and the British Country house: mapping the current research' organised by English Heritage in partnership with the University of the West of England, the National Trust and the Economic History Society. It asks what links might be established between the wealth derived from slavery and the British country house and what implications such links should have for the way such properties are represented to the public today.Lavishly illustrated and based on the latest scholarship, this wide-ranging and innovative volume provides in-depth examinations of individual houses, regional studies and critical reconsiderations of existing heritage sites, including two studies specially commissioned by English Heritage and one sponsored by the National Trust.
The result of eight years of research, this book studies the families listed in Book I of Calais Vital Records. The 346 families represented in this book are the families who had children's births registered in the Calais City Hall's earliest known (when
