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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Monuments and Memory in Early Modern England
Author: Peter SherlockPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351916815
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Funeral monuments are fascinating and diverse cultural relics that continue to captivate visitors to English churches, yet we still know relatively little about the messages they attempt to convey across the centuries. This book is a study of the material culture of memory in sixteenth and seventeenth-century England. By interpreting the images and inscriptions on monuments to the dead, it explores how early modern people wanted to be remembered - their social vision, cultural ideals, religious beliefs and political values. Arguing that early modern English monuments were not simply formulaic statements about death and memory, Dr Sherlock instead reveals them to be deliberately crafted messages to future generations. Through careful reading of monuments he shows that much can be learned about how men and women conceived of the world around them and shifting concepts of gender, social order and the place of humans within the universe. In post-Reformation England, the dead became superior to the living, as monuments trumpeted their fame and their confidence in the resurrection. This study aims to stimulate historians to attempt to reconstruct and engage with the world view of past generations through the unique and under-utilised medium of funeral monuments. In so doing it is hoped that more light may be shed on how memory was created, controlled and contested in pre-modern society, and encourage the on-going debate about the ways in which understandings of the past shape the present and future.
A Passion for Records
Author: C. J. KitchingPublisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1788039211
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
The biography of an enigmatic Victorian pioneer. The first critical appraisal of this sporting legend and antiquary, using his own archives and writings. Important glimpses of everyday Victorian life. Suitable for those with interests in sport, local history, genealogy and record editing. Walter Rye was a London solicitor until he retired to Norwich, but it was three spare-time passions that earned him his place in the Dictionary of National Biography: physical exercise, record-searching, and a devotion to his ancestral county of Norfolk. His love of the outdoors was unbounded: athlete, cyclist, sailor and archer, keen amateur gardener and naturalist. Despite this, mortal illness seemed to stalk him, and yet he lived well into his eighties. In A Passion for Records, Rye’s prolific writings as author, columnist and correspondent, replete with witty put-downs, offer many laugh-out-loud moments. His antiquarian writings invite more serious attention, after cautionary tales about his editorial techniques.
The Ancestry of Diana, Princess of Wales
Author: Richard K. EvansPublisher: New England Historic Genealogical Society(NEHGS)
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Evans traces the late Princess's forebears from the British Isles to the United States and the Far East, compiling a definitive ancestry.
A Catalogue of Some Books Relating to the Disposal of the Bodies and Perpetuating the Memories of the Dead
Author: John TownshendList of Monumental Brasses, Remaining in the County of Suffolk, 1903
Author: Edmund FarrerPublisher:
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Category : Brasses
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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Norfolk Parish Registers
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Category : Church records and registers
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Referencing for Genealogists
Author: Ian G. MacdonaldPublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750988401
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Reliable genealogical conclusions depend on reliable data. Central to any good investigation is an appreciation of where the data came from, so that other investigators can re-examine it and re-establish the conclusions reached. Genealogy is little more than anecdote when the sources for facts are not cited and where clear references to sources are not given. Referencing for Genealogists will enable others to follow in your footsteps because it gives you the means to write clear, unambiguous references that provide solid support to the evidence you offer towards your conclusions. It is packed with examples that the reader can learn from and that also provide a treasure trove of sources invaluable to any genealogist.
A Topographical Dictionary of England
Author: Samuel LewisPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 680
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