Researching Local History: The Human Journey

ISBN-13: 9780582042889 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 296 str.

Michael A. Williams; M. Williams

Opis

This practical text considers what local history is, why researching it is valuable and rewarding, and how we should go about it. Issues addressed include getting oral and documentary evidence; keeping records; the nature of data; and their use to create the different products of local history.

Spis treści

Chapter 1. The Why and How of Studying History.
Chapter 2. Given in Evidence.
Chapter 3. That Which is Written.
Chapter 4. Notes, Notebooks and Archives.
Chapter 5. One Society at One Particular Time: Caerleon in the Great War.
Chapter 6.The Matter of Polulation.
Chapter 7. Labelled for Posterity: Using Surnames as Tracers of Family Movement.
Chapter 8.Tracing the Welsh.
Chapter 9. Getting it Together.
Chapter 10. But What is it All For?
Further Reading

O autorze

M. Williams