London Stories: Personal Lives, Public Histories - Hilda Kean

Who Am I? Where do I come from? Who were my ancestors and what were their lives like? These are all questions we my have pondered upon time to time whilst some of us have actually gone out and dug around in archives and graveyards to discover more about their family history. Fueled by the success of programmes like "Who Do You Think You are, is one of the most popular forms of research amongst amateur historians. There is one main problem with genealogy , it maybe fascination to you that great great great uncle Percy was a one legged coal miner with 5 kids and a wife in the workhouse but how important is it ion the bigger scale of things? Oxford lecturer Hilda ...  Read the complete review