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In Loving
Memory: The Story of Undercliffe Cemetery
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By:
Colin Clark & Reuben Davison
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Price £ 11.99 + £ 1.95 p&p
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Proceeds go to The Undercliffe |
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Cemetery Charity |
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For a copy of this book,
Colin or Reuben can be contacted via the
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Ancestral
Trails Second Edition |
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The
complete guide to British genealogy and family history
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By: Mark D. Herber |
''a
defining work . . . I confidently predict that, in
future years, the phrase 'according to Herber' will
be used to confer authority on deliberations about
family history research'
Family Tree Magazine
This new edition
takes account the many changes in the field since
Ancestral Trails was first published in 1997, and is
the most comprehensive and up to date guide to
tracing British ancestry. It guides the researcher
through the substantial British archives with a
detailed view of the records and published sources
available. Research in Scotland, Wales, Ireland, the
Isle of Man and the Channel Islands is also covered,
as are the latest developments in information
technology applications on CD and through the
internet.
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Sutton
Companion to Churches |
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By: Stephen Friar |
This comprehensive, fully illustrated
A-Z guide to churches from post Roman period to the
present day covers architecture, fittings and
furnishings, decorative and allegorical features,
stained glass, heraldry, traditions and customs,
ecclesiastical history and the role of the church in
it's community. The Companion is illustrated
throughout and offers the ideal means to bring
churches to life.
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The Sutton
Companion to Local History
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With over 2000
entries, The Local History Companion is the most
comprehensive single-volume guide published to local
history, archaeology, architecture and landscape. In an
easy-to-use A-Z format, it answers many of the questions
that arise in the course of local history research and
travel and provides a starting point for further
enquiries. From each of the major entries, a detailed
system of cross-referencing leads on to subsidiary
entries exploring related topics or defining specialised
terms. Major entries also include guides to further
reading and the addresses of major organisations of
interest to local historians are included in an
appendix. For this edition the author has updated the
entire work, adding new entries, correcting errors and improving the illustrations.
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Medieval
Genealogy
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Genealogy has seen a
phenomenal rise in popularity over the last decade. It
constitutes the second most common use of the internet
and local and family history societies are recording
their highest membership totals ever. With its strong
appeal to the sense of continuity, of personal and
social identity and its ease of application to the
information revolution, genealogy looks set to become
the nation’s favourite productive pastime. Many people
consider themselves lucky to be able to trace their
ancestors for more than a few generations back in time.
However, as genealogical information becomes more
organised and accessible, an increasing number of people
find that they are able to go back not just a few
generations but back to Tudor times and earlier. Until
now there has been nothing to help the amateur
genealogist research records before 1600 AD. Yet there
is an enormous wealth of information from earlier than
this just waiting to be accessed. Medieval Genealogy
provides a clear and comprehensive account to the
records available and the techniques needed to find and
understand them. With numerous illustrations and
practical examples the book will fill an obvious gap in
the genealogists’ library. |
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The Victorian Celebration of Death
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In this beautifully
illustrated and well-researched book Professor Curl
has rescued much fascinating material from
undeserved oblivion, and his work fills a genuine
gap. From humble working-class exequies to the
massive outpouring of grief at the State funerals of
Wellington and Queen Victoria herself, The Victorian
Celebration of Death covers an immense canvas. It
describes the change in sensibility that led to a
new tenderness towards the dead; the history of the
urban cemeteries with their architecture and
landscapes; the ephemera of death and dying; State
funerals as national spectacles; and the utilitarian
reactions towards the end of the nineteenth century.
Combining wit with compassion, Curl wears his
learning lightly, and his taste for the eerie is
delicately balanced by this literary personality. He
has resurrected many valuable and extremely
interesting aspects of nineteenth-century attitudes
to death and the disposal of the dead; Curl's
achievement is as well-ordered as any sumptuous
funeral, and is lucid as well as entertaining, with
many surprises and associated delights. He proceeds
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ideal cemetery, and then on to cremation, with
scarcely a jolt. His robustly argued and beautifully
written reportage makes his unique and elegant book
an agreeable companion to the non-eternal bedside.
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London's Necropolis |
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A guide to Brookwood Cemetery
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In the mid-nineteenth century the volume
of London's dead was causing considerable public
concern. So in 1850 the idea of a great metropolitan
cemetery, situated in the suburbs and large enough to
contain all of London's dead for an indefinite period,
was promoted. The outcome was Brookwood Cemetery, the
largest burial ground in the world when it was opened in
1854 by the London Necropolis & Mausoleum Company. The
cemetery, which now contains almost 240,000 burials, is
still privately owned and adminstered - and a draft
report by the Home Office suggests that it has the
potential to become a World Heritage Site.
London's Necropolis is a guide to the art and
architecture of Brookwood, and also includes brief
biographies of over 800 individuals of interest who have
been buried here - reflecting all levels of society.
Each chapter is supported by maps, and there are about
100 black and white photographs to illustrate some of
the most interesting memorials and cemetery buildings.
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