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After years of leaving her husband and children behind in Seattle
as she travelled back and forth to Russia pursuing a career, Elisa
Brodinsky Miller discovers she's writing her own chapter in a book
of three generations. Shortly after her father's death, Elisa
discovers a cache of letters written in Russian and Yiddish among
his belongings, which she quickly resolves to translate. Dated from
1914 to 1922 and addressed to her grandfather, Eli, in Wilmington,
Delaware, the letters capture the eight long years that Eli spent
apart from his wife and their six children who remained behind in
the Pale of Settlement. With each translation, Brodinsky Miller
learns more about this time spent apart, the family she knew so
little about, and the country they came to leave behind, connecting
her own experiences with those who came before her. This
captivating memoir bridges the past with the present, as we learn
about her grandparents' drives to escape the Jewish worlds of
Tsarist Russia, her immigrant parents' hopes for their marriage in
America, and now her turn to reach for meaning and purpose: each a
generation of aspirations-first theirs, now hers.
This collection represents the surviving output of the clerks of
the men and women of the most powerful magnate dynasty in England,
Wales and Ireland in the thirteenth century. Its greatness was
short-lived, but as a result of the Marshals' spread of interests
and marriage alliances the charters and letters edited here embrace
a remarkable diversity of lordships and societies. That fact and
the central place the two Earls William Marshal held at the court
of the young Henry III between 1216 and 1231, playing a decisive
role in the establishment of Magna Carta, give this collection a
unique interest for medieval historians of Britain and France, more
so perhaps than for any other contemporary magnate family.
The Boer War took place between 1899 and 1902, just 15 years before
the start of the First World War. Some 180,00 Britons, mainly
volunteers, travelled 6,000 miles to fight and die in boiling
conditions on the veld and atop 'kopjes'. Of the over 20,000 who
died more than half suffered enteric, an illness consequent on
insanitary water. This book will act as an informative research
guide for those seeking to discover and uncover the stories of the
men who fought and the families they left behind. It will look in
particular at the kind of support the men received if they were war
injured and that offered to the families of the bereaved. Some
pensions were available to regular soldiers and the Patriotic Fund,
a charitable organisation , had been resurrected at the beginning
of the conflict. However for those who did not fit these categories
the Poor Law was the only support available at the time.The book
will explore a variety of research materials such as: contemporary
national and local newspapers; military records via websites and
directly through regimental archives; census, electoral, marriage
and death records; records at the National Archives including the
Book of Wounds from the Boer War, the Transvaal Widows' Fund and
others.
First published in 1973, this collection of notes and documents
relating to approximately 100 Yorkshire families who held land of
the Crown in Yorkshire in the middle ages was compiled by the
antiquary Sir Charles Travis Clay (1885 1978). Deeply interested in
the history of his home county, he was held in high esteem for his
editing of medieval charters, and the ten volumes of Early
Yorkshire Charters that he edited between 1935 and 1965 (also
reissued in this series as part of the complete thirteen-volume
set) were regarded as a masterpiece. In Early Yorkshire Families,
Clay's notes on each lineage establish its provenance, its
genealogy, the origin of its land tenure (with further illustrative
documents contained in the latter part of the work), and how land
was held and transmitted. This work is an invaluable source of
information for researchers interested in medieval Yorkshire or the
feudal system generally.
Everybody knows about Charles Darwin, and many know about others in
his family, from Erasmus Darwin and Tom Wedgwood, the first
photographer, to composer Ralph Vaughan Williams and poet and
radical John Cornford, the first Briton to be killed in the Spanish
Civil War. But when Charles and Emma Darwin's
great-great-granddaughter, another Emma Darwin, tried to root her
new novel in that history, the conflict between her complex
heritage, and her own identity as a writer, became a battle that
nearly killed her. This is Not a Book About Charles Darwin takes
the reader on a writer's journey through the Darwin-Wedgwood-Galton
clan, as seen through the lens of Emma's struggle. Along the way,
her wry, witty and honest memoir becomes a brave book about failure
- and, above all, a book about writing and how stories are told.
Richly illustrated with over 40 black and white images.
John Venn (1834 1923), a leading British logician, moral scientist
and historian of Cambridge, came from a noted family of clerics,
although he resigned from the clergy as his philosophical studies
led him away from Anglican orthodoxy. This family memoir, published
in 1904, covers the careers of three centuries of Venn clergy,
together with an outline of the family origins and pedigrees. The
family came from Devon, where William Venn was ordained in 1595,
and two of his sons followed him. Richard Venn was displaced and
jailed during the Commonwealth. The author's father, John, was the
founder of an evangelical sect at Clapham (where his father Henry
had also been curate), and of the Church Missionary Society, an
organisation in which the author's brother, Henry, played a leading
role. The study provides a microcosmic history of the Anglican
Church from the Reformation to the end of the nineteenth century.
Originally written for private circulation among the Royal Family,
this book, written by Lieutenant-General Charles Grey (1804-70),
was first published in 1867. It details Prince Albert's life from
his birth in 1819 through to his wedding to Queen Victoria and the
first year of their married life. The Queen commissioned Grey, who
had been secretary to both Albert and herself, as her husband's
biographer, and the book was granted a wider publication, so that
all who read it would 'tend to a better and higher appreciation of
Prince Albert's great character'. Sourced from letters and
memoranda, the book traces the development of Albert from an
intelligent and gentle boy to the intellectual and moral compass of
a nation. It records Albert's first visits to England, the wedding,
his love for his adopted country and life in London, and includes
details such as an attempted assassination of the Queen.
WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018 WINNER OF THE SLIGHTLY
FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2018 A SUNDAY TIMES PAPERBACK OF
THE YEAR 2019 'A masterpiece of history and memoir' Evening
Standard 'Superb. This is a necessary book - painful, harrowing,
tragic, but also uplifting' The Times
__________________________________________________ Little Lien
wasn't taken from her Jewish parents in the Hague - she was given
away in the hope that she might be saved. Hidden and raised by a
foster family in the provinces during the Nazi occupation, she
survived the war only to find that her real parents had not. Much
later, she fell out with her foster family, and Bart van Es - the
grandson of Lien's foster parents - knew he needed to find out why.
His account of tracing Lien and telling her story is a searing
exploration of two lives and two families. It is a story about love
and misunderstanding and about the ways that our most painful
experiences - so crucial in defining us - can also be redefined.
___________________________________________________ 'Luminous,
elegant, haunting - I read it straight through' Philippe Sands,
author of East West Street 'Deeply moving. Writes with an almost
Sebaldian simplicity and understatement' Guardian 'Sensational and
gripping . . . shedding light on some of the most urgent issues of
our time' Judges of the Costa Book of the Year 2018
In this third edition of his valuable study of the variety of civil
and ecclesiastical documents in parish archives, Mr Tate corrected
and revised the text and replaced Appendix II with information in
County and other major local record offices in England. The purpose
of the book is to illustrate and encourage research into local
history by means of surviving documents and fragments; it opens a
way of actual study for many would-be local historians. Much
thought has been given to classification, and comparison; the book
is cross referenced, indexed and illustrated. It prints many
examples of typical records of all kinds, related them where
necessary to the laws and conditions which gave rise to them, and
to the society whose relics they are. Mr Tate's knowledge of
documents and of the scattered literature dealing with them enabled
him to describe and illustrate the evolution of local government.
Family history should reveal more than facts and dates, lists of
names and places - it should bring ancestors alive in the context
of their times and the surroundings they knew - and research into
local history records is one of the most rewarding ways of gaining
this kind of insight into their world. That is why Jonathan Oates's
detailed introduction to these records is such a useful tool for
anyone who is trying to piece together a portrait of family members
from the past. In a series of concise and informative chapters he
looks at the origins and importance of local history from the
sixteenth century onwards and at the principal archives - national
and local, those kept by government, councils, boroughs, museums,
parishes, schools and clubs. He also explains how books,
photographs and other illustrations, newspapers, maps, directories,
and a range of other resources can be accessed and interpreted and
how they can help to fill a gap in your knowledge.As well as
describing how these records were compiled, he highlights their
limitations and the possible pitfalls of using them, and he
suggests how they can be combined to build up a picture of an
individual, a family and the place and time in which they lived.
In the 1920s there were over a million coalminers working in over
3000 collieries across Great Britain, and the industry was one of
the most important and powerful in British history. It dominated
the lives of generations of individuals, their families and
communities, and its legacy is still with us today - many of us
have a coalmining ancestor. Yet family historians often have
problems in researching their mining forebears. Locating the
relevant records, finding the sites of the pits, and understanding
the work involved and its historical background can be perplexing.
That is why Brian Elliott's concise, authoritative and practical
handbook will be so useful, for it guides researchers through these
obstacles and opens up the broad range of sources they can go to in
order to get a vivid insight into the lives and experiences of
coalminers in the past. His overview of the coalmining history -
and the case studies and research tips he provides - will make his
book rewarding reading for anyone looking for a general
introduction to this major aspect of Britain's industrial heritage.
His directory of regional and national sources and his commentary
on them will make this guide an essential tool for family
historians searching for an ancestor who worked in coalmining
underground, on the pit top or just lived in a mining community.
If you want to find out about Lancashire s history, and
particularly if you have family links to the area and your
ancestors lived or worked in the county, then this is the ideal
book for you. As well as helping you to trace when and where your
ancestors were born, married and died, it gives you an insight into
the world they knew and a chance to explore their lives at work and
at home.Sue Wilkes s accessible and informative handbook outlines
Lancashire s history and describes the origins of its major
industries - cotton, coal, transport, engineering, shipbuilding and
others. She looks at the stories of important Lancashire families
such as the Stanleys, Peels and Egertons, and famous entrepreneurs
such as Richard Arkwright, in order to illustrate aspects of
Lancashire life and to show how the many sources available for
family and local history research can be used. Relevant documents,
specialist archives and libraries, background reading and other
sources are recommended throughout this practical book. Also
included is a directory of Lancashire archives, libraries and
academic repositories, as well as databases of family history
societies, useful genealogy websites, and places to visit which
bring Lancashire s past to life. Sue Wilkes s book is the essential
companion for anyone who wants to discover their Lancashire roots.
REVIEWS ...an essential companion... identifies what records to
look at, why, what indexes may exist and where they will be
located.FGS Forum"
Epic and engrossing, this extravagant true story covers 200 years
in the life of an English family dynasty in Sicily. Benjamin
Ingham, possibly the greatest tycoon England has ever known, was
attracted to Sicily from his humble beginnings in Yorkshire by the
burgeoning trade in marsala wine. This is the story of the English
Croesus, who made the money, and his beneficiaries, the Whitaker
family, who spent it - intertwined with two hundred years of
enthralling Sicilian history. 'Most entertaining and readable.'
Anthony Powell, Telegraph 'Deeply researched and wholly
fascinating.' Washington Post 'An original and entertaining
contribution to Anglo-Italian history.' Times
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Hancox is the Tudor hall house in rural Sussex where Charlotte
Moore grew up, and where she lives today. It's been in the family
since her ancestor Milicent Ludlow, young, single and an orphan,
took it on in 1891 and began to enlarge the house and manage the
farm. Hancox tells the story of the house and the family over the
following thirty years, in the long run-up to the First World War.
In one sense it's a rural idyll: the arrival of the car disturbs
this peaceful agrarian world, but apart from that the rhythms of
the countryside go on as they had for centuries before. But all was
not quite as it seemed: Milicent made a distinguished marriage but
her husband harboured a secret. Milicent herself gradually
succumbed to religious fanaticism. And the death of the youngest
boy at Ypres devastated the family, bringing the idyll to a painful
end. Using extraordinary archive material held at Hancox today,
Charlotte Moore weaves an Edwardian tale of madness and jealousy,
love and loss, heroism and tragedy.
Whether you're eager to hold on to EU citizenship post-Brexit or
simply interested in exploring your family's past, learn how to
research and document your Irish ancestry with this essential
guide, newly updated to include the latest genealogy tools. The
purpose of this book is to highlight the most important documentary
evidence available to the family historian wishing to research
their Irish ancestry. It is aimed primarily at researchers whose
time in Irish repositories is limited, and who want to know what is
available locally and online. It covers more than eighteen
individual sources of information, making it simpler to organise
your search and easier to carry it out both locally and on the
ground. This books covers: - Where to begin - Researching online -
Civil registration - Making sense of census returns, wills,
election records - Migration, emigration - Local government and
church records
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