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Books > History > History of specific subjects > Genealogy, heraldry, names and honours
The public seem to have an insatiable appetite for information
about the Royal family. Every day the media carry news and pictures
about the most famous family in the world. Yet social scientists
have virtually ignored this strange mass obsession. Now, Michael
Billig, a social psychologist, examines the significance of this
interest in royalty. He argues that the Royal family is a symbol of
continuity in national consciousness. He supports this claim with
analyses of 63 English families discussing the Royal family. As the
families talk about royalty, they are talking about much more:
about gender, nationality, family life, the media, inequality, sex.
Above all, they are talking about themselves. The book shows how
this talk can be simultaneously serious and funny. There are jokes,
criticism, praise and, above all, acceptance. Billig does much more
than simply portray attitudes' towards royalty. He shows how our
commonsense attitudes and ordinary desires are constructed and
contributes new insights about ideology and popular memory. This
book should be of interest to students of sociology, cultural
studies, psychology, and the general reader.
Discover how to use FamilySearch.org! Learn how to tackle the
largest free genealogy website with this in-depth user guide, newly
updated to reflect the site's latest developments. The Unofficial
Guide to FamilySearch.org, second edition, shows you how to find
your family in the site's databases of more than 3.5 billion names
and millions of digitized historical records spanning the globe.
Learn how to maximize all of FamilySearch.org's research
tools--including hard to find features--to extend your family tree
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This is a book for those thousands of family historians who have
already made some progress in tracing their family tree and have
become interested in the places where their ancestors lived, worked
and raised children. It emphasises the diversity and extraordinary
complexity of the rural and urban communities in provincial England
even before the great changes associated with the Industrial
Revolution.
THIS HEARTBREAKING, HEARTWARMING, TRUE STORY FOLLOWING THE HISTORY
OF A FAMILY IN WALES IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS EVER
WRITTEN. 'I am a proud supporter of our National Health Service
which has shown yet again what an important and valued institution
it is in the UK. As the first NHS baby through to her work today,
Aneira's story shows her dedication and passion for protecting this
phenomenal service for future generations.' KEIR STARMER 'This book
speaks from the heart about a passion to preserve our NHS - as
powerful a symbol of goodness as we have. Nye's own experience and
that of her family represents our deep need to fight for a society
where all are equal in worth and value. And how the NHS stands fast
as a symbol of equality, of fairness, and of compassion for all.'
MICHAEL SHEEN 'Aneira has written a memoir which is a deeply
personal, richly researched and incredibly timely tribute to
Britain's commitment to provide free and equal healthcare to all.'
- DAILY MAIL Book of the Week, 22 May 2020 'Moving tribute to the
NHS.' - WI Life
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'Edna,' says the doctor, coming to stand beside her bed. 'You need
to wait. It's not long now. Don't push. Just hold on, Edna!' The
birth of the National Health Service coincided with the birth of
one little girl in South Wales: Aneira 'Nye' Thomas, the first baby
delivered by the NHS. This is the touching story of Nye's family -
their loves and losses - and the launch of a treasured public
service that has touched the lives of every family in the nation.
Spanning from the inauguration of James I in 1603 to the execution
of Charles I in 1649, the Stuart court saw the emergence of a full
expression of Renaissance culture in Britain. Hart examines the
influence of magic on Renaissance art and how in its role as an
element of royal propaganda, art was used to represent the power of
the monarch and reflect his apparent command over the hidden forces
of nature. Court artists sought to represent magic as an expression
of the Stuart Kings' divine right, and later of their policy of
Absolutism, through masques, sermons, heraldry, gardens,
architecture and processions. As such, magic of the kind enshrined
in Neoplatonic philosophy and the court art which expressed its
cosmology, played their part in the complex causes of the Civil War
and the destruction of the Stuart image which followed in its wake.
Professor Woolrych surveys the establishment and history if the
Commonwealth and Protectorate, first explaining how the country
lost its king, and how Oliver Cromwell became Lord Protector.
Professor Woolrych challenges accepted views on the nature of the
Protectorate, and finally offers some guidelines to the tangled
period between Cromwell's death and the Restoration.
Future parents have many choices to make. Which colour should we
paint the room? Do we give birth at home or in the hospital? And,
most importantly: what will be the name of the baby? Evidently, you
would like to pick a name that gives the child a headstart, that
might even raise expectations and ultimately, a name that suits the
successful and fabulous human being it will evolve into. In bygone
days, children were named after Biblical or heroic figures. But
where do you find modern-day heroes? On the football field, of
course! Names like Jari, Lionel, Cristiano or Johan - they
immediately evoke an emotion or an image. With these football names
your baby is ahead of the game.
This is a handy and colourful illustrated guide to reading, writing
and understanding ancient Egyptian names, epithets, titles and
phrases. The Egyptians believed that the creator god Ptah brought
the world into being by naming everything in it. Names had great
power, and kings often over-wrote their own names on the monuments
of earlier rulers. A person's name was a vitally important part of
them, and the Egyptians were very concerned that their names should
be recorded, remembered and spoken. Criminals and those who had
fallen out of favour could be punished - wiped out of history - by
having their names destroyed or defaced. The hieroglyphic script
provided a beautiful, flexible and expressive means to write the
names of humans, gods and animals. Angela McDonald explains the
meanings of Egyptian personal names and how they were made up
(Rameses = 'Ra has given birth to him') and demonstrates how they
were written in different ways to convey various shades of meaning.
Royal and divine names are always given special treatment. The
Egyptians were not always formal, and nicknames were common. Even
the names of pet animals are recorded in tomb paintings.
This is the story of Watson Mithlo, Chiricahua Apache, his family,
and his life. Watson's story embodies the life of the Chiricahua
Apache people, who in 1886 were forced into exile to Fort Marion,
Florida, by the US government and considered prisoners of war until
1914. This story tells Watson's lived history as the Chiricahua
were relocated from Arizona to Florida to Alabama and finally to
Fort Sill, Oklahoma. But this is also a story of Harry Mithlo,
Watson's son, and Conger Beasley, Harry's friend. It is a story of
telling a story. The three voices that serve as our
narrators--Watson, Harry, and Conger--all contribute information
and emotions, caught up in a kind of ongoing, never-ending,
simultaneous present. This story is a composite, a mosaic, a song.
It is imbued with oral tradition, Apache medicine, and the dance of
the Chiricahua Mountain Spirits. Through Watson, Harry, and Conger,
one man's life becomes a circle, blending history with the sacred
in the telling of a distinctly Native story.
This is a new edition of the bestselling guide to this increasingly
popular pursuit. Scotland has the best-maintained records and
facilities of any country in the world for undertaking family
research, and now that the National Records of Scotland are
available online they can be consulted by anyone from whatever
country. Tracing Your Scottish Ancestors is the National Records'
official guide and is written in an accessible style from the
unique perspective of a custodian of the records. It details all
the latest internet developments, including a chapter on family
history on the web. It also points to more traditional resources,
explaining step by step how to research records of births,
marriages and wills.
Discussion of display through a range of artefacts and in a variety
of contexts: family and lineage, social distinction and aspiration,
ceremony and social bonding, and the expression of power and
authority. Medieval culture was intensely visual. Although this has
long been recognised by art historians and by enthusiasts for
particular media, there has been little attempt to study social
display as a subject in its own right. And yet,display takes us
directly into the values, aspirations and, indeed, anxieties of
past societies. In this illustrated volume a group of experts
address a series of interrelated themes around the issue of display
and do so in a waywhich avoids jargon and overly technical
language. Among the themes are family and lineage, social
distinction and aspiration, ceremony and social bonding, and the
expression of power and authority. The media include monumental
effigies, brasses, stained glass, rolls of arms, manuscripts,
jewels, plate, seals and coins. Contributors: MAURICE KEEN, DAVID
CROUCH, PETER COSS, CAROLINE SHENTON, ADRIAN AILES, FREDERIQUE
LACHAUD, MARIAN CAMPBELL, BRIAN and MOIRA GITTOS, NIGEL SAUL, FIONN
PILBROW, CAROLINE BARRON and JOHN WATTS.
An exciting new edition of Bella Bathurst's epic story of Robert
Louis Stevenson's ancestors and the building of the Scottish
coastal lighthouses against impossible odds. 'Whenever I smell salt
water, I know that I am not far from one of the works of my
ancestors,' wrote Robert Louis Stevenson in 1880. 'When the lights
come out at sundown along the shores of Scotland, I am proud to
think they burn more brightly for the genius of my father!' Robert
Louis Stevenson was the most famous of the Stevensons, but not by
any means the most productive. The Lighthouse Stevensons, all four
generations of them, built every lighthouse round Scotland, were
responsible for a slew of inventions in both construction and
optics, and achieved feats of engineering in conditions that would
be forbidding even today. The same driven energy which Robert Louis
Stevenson put into writing, his ancestors put into lighting the
darkness of the seas. The Lighthouse Stevensons is a story of high
endeavour, beautifully told; indeed, this is one of the most
celebrated works of historical biography in recent memory.
No family better represents the overlapping roles of administrator
and scientist in the British empire than the Roths. Descended from
a Hungarian emigrant to Australia, two generations of Roths served
the empire on four continents and, at the same time, produced
ethnographic, archaeological, and linguistic studies that form the
basis for much modern research. This volume assesses the
often-conflicting roles and contributions of the Roths as
government servants and anthropologists. Most of the volume deals
with Walter E. Roth, who developed foundational studies of both the
Australian Aborigines-considered to be among the first systematic
ethnographies anywhere-and South American tribes while serving as
Chief Protector of Aborigines in Queensland and later medical
officer, magistrate, museum curator and indigenous relations
officer in British Guyana. Henry Ling Roth's contributions to the
anthropology of Tasmania, Benin, Sarawak, and New Zealand are also
enumerated, as are the publications and administrative activities
of the succeeding generation of Roths. This volume serves the
reader as a family biography, a slice of the English colonial
history, and an important introduction to the history of
anthropology.
From decade to decade, significant changes occur in the choice of
first names for children. One-time favorites are perceived as old
fashioned and replaced by new choices. In "The Name Game," Jrgen
Gerhards shows that shifts in the choice of names are based on more
than arbitrary trends of fashion. Instead, he demonstrates, they
are determined by larger currents in cultural modernization.
Using classic tools of sociology, Gerhards focuses on changing
atterns of first names in Germany from the end of the nineteenth
century to the end of the twentieth, using these as an indicator of
cultural change. Among the influences he considers are religion,
and he notes a trend toward greater secularization in first names.
He considers the extent to which Christian names have been
displaced, and whether the process is similar for Catholics and
Protestants. He traces the impact of different political regimes
(Second Empire, Weimar Republic, Third Reich, West Germany, East
Germany) and the accompanying rise and fall of German nationalist
sentiment. He also investigates the dissolution of the family as a
unit of production, and its impact on the naming of children. He
shows that the weakening of traditional ties of religion, nation,
and family has led to greater individuation and greater receptivity
toward foreign first names. Gerhards concludes with a discussion of
whether the blurring of gender and sex roles is reflected in the
decrease of gender-specific names.
Written in a lucid, approachable style, "The Name Game" will be of
interest not only to sociologists and cultural studies specialists,
but also non-professionals, especially parents who are interested
in reflecting on the process of name giving.
Jrgen Gerhards is professor of sociology at the Free University of
Berlin. He was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in
Berlin and at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the
Social Sciences. He is co-author with Myra Marx Ferree, William A.
Gamson, and Dieter Rucht of "Shaping Abortion Discourse: Democracy
and the Public Sphere in Germany and the United States."
Parish registers are a vast, important but widely scattered
archive. They are essential to the family historian, providing the
only written record of the vast majority of our ancestors who left
but three brief mentions - a baptism, a marriage and a burial. This
guide to parish registers, now in its third edition, and covering
England, Scotland and Wales, is a vital, time-saving tool that has
become universally known as 'the genealogist's bible'. The Atlas
includes the famous county 'parish' maps, which show pre-1832
parochial boundaries, colour-coded probate jurisdictions, starting
dates of surviving registers, and churches and chapels, where
relevant. Topographical maps face each 'parish' map, and show the
contemporary road system and other local features, to help deduce
the likely movement of people beyond the searcher's starting point.
The Index lists the parishes, with grid references to the county
maps. It indicates the present whereabouts of original registers
and copies, and whether a parish is included in other indexes. It
also gives registration districts and census information. Thus in
this invaluable guide, the user may quickly find answers to such
questions as: Have the registers been deposited? Where may they be
found? What outside dates do they cover? Have they been copied or
indexed, and by whom?
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