Category Archives: Genealogy

Genealogy Online For Dummies

Posted on February 25, 2008 by singleton

Researching your genealogy online is like being a kid in a candy store. So many neat things catch your eye that it’s difficult to decide which one to try. That’s where Genealogy Online For Dummies, 5th Edition comes in. This … Continue reading →

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Typhoid In Uppingham: Analysis of a Victorian Town and School in Crisis 1875-1877 (Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century)

Posted on February 25, 2008 by singleton

After the Public Heath Acts of 1872 and 1875, British local authorities bore statutory obligations to carry out sanitary improvements. Richardson explores public health strategy and central-local government relations during the mid-nineteenth-century, using the experience of Uppingham, England, as a … Continue reading →

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Plympton Priory: A House of Augustinian Canons in South-Western England in the Late Middle Ages (Brill’s Series in Church History)

Posted on February 26, 2007 by singleton

A case study examining the history of a house of English Augustinian canons, this book reveals the ways in which Plympton Priory formed connections with the laity, the episcopacy, the secular clergy, and the Crown in the late Middle Ages.

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The Nazi Ancestral Proof: Genealogy, Racial Science, and the Final Solution

Posted on February 25, 2007 by singleton

“Ehrenreich’s book carefully and clearly enumerates scientific racism’s fallacies of logic. … [His book shows that] although racist eugenics was less logically coherent than hereditary health eugenics, greater numbers of `racially acceptable’ Germans appear to have been willing to accept … Continue reading →

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How to Research Your House: Every home tells a story

Posted on February 25, 2007 by singleton

Do you want to know more about the history of your house, find out about the lives of former inhabitants, and discover more about the local community in which your house stands? Pamela Brooks, author of “How to Research Local … Continue reading →

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Creating Family Web Sites For Dummies

Posted on February 25, 2005 by singleton

Add multimedia, post the family calendar, and save time with templates Introduce your new baby, share the family tree, or plan a reunion on the Web With families scattered all across the country, the best family gathering place is now … Continue reading →

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Noblewomen, Aristocracy and Power in the Twelfth-Century Anglo-Norman Realm (Gender in History)

Posted on February 26, 2003 by singleton

This is the first study of noblewomen in 12th-century England and Normandy, and of the ways in which they exercised power. It draws on a rich mix of evidence to offer an important reconceptualization of women’s role in aristocratic society, … Continue reading →

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Noblewomen, Aristocracy and Power in the Twelfth-Century Anglo-Norman Realm (Gender in History)

Posted on February 26, 2003 by singleton

This is the first study of noblewomen in 12th-century England and Normandy, and of the ways in which they exercised power. It draws on a rich mix of evidence to offer an important reconceptualization of women’s role in aristocratic society, … Continue reading →

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Heraldry, Pageantry and Social Display in Medieval England

Posted on February 25, 2002 by singleton

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 … Continue reading →

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British Colours & Standards 1747-1881 (1): Cavalry (Elite) (Pt.1)

Posted on February 26, 2001 by singleton

In this first of a two-part sequence a respected vexillologist describes, explains and illustrates a wide variety of the standards and guidons carried during the 18th and 19th centuries by British Household, Regular, Yeomanry and Volunteer cavalry units. The successive … Continue reading →

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