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Oxford companion to family and local history
- Title
- Oxford companion to family and local history / edited by David Hey.
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Hey, David.
- Description
- xxxix, 661 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Edited by David Hey, a leading authority, the book provides helpful information for anyone enquiring into their English, Irish, Scottish, or Welsh origins and for anyone working in genealogical research or on the social history of the British Isles. --from publisher description.
- Series Statement
- Heritage Collection
- Uniform Title
- Heritage Collection.
- Alternative Title
- Companion to family and local history
- Family and local history
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Dictionary
- dictionaries.
- Family histories.
- Dictionaries.
- Local history.
- Dictionnaires.
- Histoires familiales.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Thematic Essays -- Family History -- Tracing a Family Tree: Getting Started / David Hey -- Surnames / David Hey -- Britain and America: A Common Heritage / George Redmonds -- African-Caribbean Genealogy / Guy Grannum -- South Asian Genealogy / Abi Husainy -- Family History / Anthony Camp -- Family and Society / Ralph Houlbrooke -- Local History -- The Antiquarian Tradition / David Hey -- Local and Regional History: Modern Approaches / David Hey -- Irish Local and Family History / Kevin Whelan -- Scottish Local and Family History / David Moody -- Welsh Local and Family History / D. Huw Owen -- Women Local and Family Historians / Joan Thirsk -- Landscape and Culture -- Place-Names / Margaret Gelling -- Landscape History: The Countryside / H.S.A. Fox -- Towns / David M. Palliser -- Domestic Buildings / Malcolm Airs -- Historic Churches / David Hey -- Popular Culture / Charles Phythian-Adams -- Folklore, Customs, and Civic Ritual / Charles Phythian-Adams -- Themes -- Population Levels and Trends / David Hey -- Agricultural History / David Hey -- Industrial History / David Hey -- Labour History / John L. Halstead -- The Poor / David Hey -- Central Government, Courts, and Taxation / R.W. Hoyle -- Local Government / R.W. Hoyle -- Education / David Hey -- The Twentieth Century / Brian M. Short -- A-Z -- App. Record Offices and Special Collections.
- ISBN
- 9780199532988
- 0199532982
- 9780191735042
- 0191735043
- LCCN
- 2009275342
- OCLC
- ocn209816575
- 209816575
- SCSB-9666599
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library