Tracing Your Ancestors' Childhood
Tracing Your Ancestors' Childhood

Author: Sue Wilkes

Publisher: Pen and Sword

Published: 2013-09-19

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 1473829623

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Every family historian has child ancestors, and childhood experiences and records are an essential aspect of research into a past life. That is why Sue Wilkes's detailed and accessible handbook is such a useful guide for anyone who is trying to find out about the early years of their forbears. In Tracing Your Ancestors' Childhood she explores the history of childhood and education and brings together information about relevant records and archives into one handy reference guide. She outlines ancestors' childhood experiences at home, school, work and in institutions, especially during Victorian times. In the opening chapter she reviews basic family history sources, then she discusses records of childhood in detail. Specialist archives, published sources, recommended reading and other resources and documents are covered. She focuses primarily on England and Wales and covers the years 1750–1950. The second part of her book is a directory of archives and specialist repositories. Databases of children's societies, useful genealogy websites, and places to visit which bring the social history of childhood to life are all included.

Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research
Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research

Author: University of London. Institute of Historical Research

Publisher:

Published: 1932

Total Pages: 550

ISBN-13:

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Contains reports on archives and on the problems and methods of historical research; summaries of unpublished historical theses produced at the institute; addenda and corrigenda to the Dictionary of national biography, the New English dictionary, and other standard collections; the migrations of historical manuscripts; etc., etc.

Black Abolitionists in Ireland
Black Abolitionists in Ireland

Author: Christine Kinealy

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-03-29

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 1003859925

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Building on the narratives explored in volume one, this publication recovers the story of a further seven Black visitors to Ireland in the decades prior to the American Civil War. This volume examines each of these seven activists and artists, and how their unique and diverse talents contributed to the movement to abolish enslavement and to the demand for Black equality. In an era that witnessed the rise of minstrelsy, they provided a powerful counter argument to the lie of Black inferiority. Moreover, their interactions with Irish abolitionists helped to build a strong transatlantic movement that had a global reach and impact. The lives explored are: Ira Aldridge (the African Roscius), William Henry Lane (Master Juba), William P. Powell, Elizabeth Greenfield (the Black Swan), Reuben Nixon, James Watkins and William H. Day. Individually and collectively they demonstrated the agency and power of Black involvement in the search for social justice. This book will be of value to students and scholars alike interested in modern European history and social and cultural history.

List of Boys and Girls Admitted Into Ackworth School During the 100 Years From 18th of 10th Month, 1779, to the Centenary Celebration on the 27th of 6th Month, 1879 (Classic Reprint)
List of Boys and Girls Admitted Into Ackworth School During the 100 Years From 18th of 10th Month, 1779, to the Centenary Celebration on the 27th of 6th Month, 1879 (Classic Reprint)

Author: Ackworth School

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-08-19

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9781333282745

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Excerpt from List of Boys and Girls Admitted Into Ackworth School During the 100 Years From 18th of 10th Month, 1779, to the Centenary Celebration on the 27th of 6th Month, 1879 Who lands could measure, terms and tides presage, And e'en the story ran that he could gauge On whom they gazed, and still the wonder grew That one small head could carry all he knew. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.