This book offers critical engagements with four objects from the nineteenth century: The ruins of the Crystal Palace in Sydenham & the dinosaurs that remain the Albert Memorial in Kensington Gardens Oxfords Pitt Rivers Museum & the short novel by H.G. Wells
- The Time Machine. These provide very different forms of encounter but are bound by the shadow of the Great Exhibition of 1851. This immense spectacle helped forge our understanding of display surveillance & commodity. This legacy can be detected in the development of the modern museum & gallery as well as the shaping of spaces & structures of trade commerce & political display denying any possibility of conceptually separating these sites. Linked by a cumulative narrative that binds the mid nineteenth century to the early twenty first these four objects are identified as formative traces of the past within the present. They provide models for critical thought & suggest answers to the problematic conditions that they present as ideologically specific relics from a previous age.
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History leaves traces of the people
- Byron Shakespeare Rimbaud Leonardo
- living through it in portraits documents & books.

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The trail that an ancestor leaves through the Victorian period & the twentieth century is relatively easy to follow
- the records
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Of all family history sources death records are probably the least used by researchers. They are however frequently the most revealing of records giving a far greater insight into our ancestors lives & personalities than those records created during their lifetime. Celia Heritage leads readers through the various types of death records showing how they can be found read & interpreted
- & how to glean as much information as possible from them. In many cases they can be used as a starting point for developing your family history research into other equally rewarding areas. This highly readable handbook is packed with useful information & helpful research advice. In addition a thought-provoking final chapter looks into the repercussions of death
- its effects on the surviving members of the family & the fact that a premature death could sometimes affect the family for generations to come.

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Do you believe you are descended from the aristocracy or even from royalty? Or do you have a line of descent from a blue-blooded family but want to know more? How far back do noble & royal lines go? How do coats of arms work & how can heraldic records tell you more? How can genetics help you find your aristocratic origins? In Tracing Your Aristocratic Ancestors leading British genealogist Anthony Adolph explains how to decode family stories to find the truth & prove your descent from blue-blooded forebears. His book shows you how to expand your aristocratic pedigree sideways & backwards incorporating heraldic records & printed pedigrees such as those in Burkes Peerage. In a series of concise fact-filled chapters he explains how to find out about & prove aristocratic ancestry defines who is blue-blooded & describes all the sources that researchers can use to explore this fascinating subject. Under Adolphs guidance you will travel back into the distant past using cutting-edge DNA technology & arcane genealogies back to the evolution of the human race & the point where real ancestors fade into mythical ones
- Adam & Eve the heroes of old & ultimately the very gods themselves.
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The Black Country in the West Midlands is an important site for family historians. Many researchers seeking to trace their ancestry back through the generations will find their trail leads through it. & yet despite the burgeoning interest in genealogy & the importance of the region in so many life stories no previous book has provided a guide to the Black Country's history & to the documents & records that family historians can use in their research. In this accessible & informative introduction to the subject Michael Pearson looks at the history & heritage of the region & gives a graphic insight into the world in which our ancestors lived. He concentrates on the role the Black Country played during the industrial revolution when the development of mining industry & transport transformed the economic & social life of the area. This was a period when living & working conditions were poor families were large children worked from an early age often in the mines & life expectancy was less than 20. & it was the era in which the Black Country took on the distinctive identity by which it is known today. As well as retelling the fascinating story of the development of the Black Country the author introduces the reader to the variety of records that are available for genealogical research from legal & ecclesiastical archives birth & death certificates to the records of local government employers institutions clubs societies & schools. ...

Britain's industrial revolution depended on canals for the cheap movement of materials & goods
- until the coming of the railways.
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East Enders are a very special breed & tracing your East End ancestry is going to be tremendous fun. Everyone has got some East End ancestors
- & if they havent they invent them rollicking chaps larky & resourceful talking a funny language to keep them" guessing eating at eel & pie shops shouting out their wares in clattering colourful markets. Their wives & masters (" er in doors") are brazen lassies smart as paint tough as their men folk presiding over an undoubted matriarchal society where Mum rules OK? The good tales are of bright little kids unshod & street-wise rising above their origins & making a mint. The bad ones are of indescribable horror
- children dying in diseased heaps infant sex for sale & gangs of armed bandits terrorising the neighbourhood. As author Jane Cox writes in the preface the East End of our great grandparents days was another world & her fascinating & accessible guide to East End ancestry will help you find out about it. She takes readers through the maze of courts & alleys that was the home of their ancestors bringing to life that vibrant polyglot society & describing the many sources researchers can consult
- archives records books the internet
- in order to discover the lives of individuals who lived in the area or passed through it."



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Researching your family tree is a fascinating & fulfilling project but where do you begin? & where should you go if you get stuck? TRACING YOUR FAMILY HISTORY MADE EASY takes you through the entire process from recording the information you already know to finding the information you dont. This easy-to-follow guide packed with top tips & step-by-step instructions explains how to search historical records & online resources how to keep track of your findings & how to build your family tree on your home computer including: checking censuses & official records; interpreting documents; investigating occupations such as military personnel the medical professions & much more. This title

Includes:: a CD-Rom of family tree software Family Historian Starter Edition 4.1: so you can add up to 80 people to your tree. Whether you are 70 or 20 discover your familys past & bring it to life with TRACING YOUR FAMILY HISTORY MADE EASY.

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Anyone who wants to find out about the history of their house
- of their home
- needs to read this compact practical handbook.

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