Local history

Landscape history uses clues in landscape together with maps. This book exposes the myths that have grown up around the landscape such as the Black Death being responsible for the depopulation of the countryside, and old woods being the last relics of the ancient wild wood that covered all of the...

This text describes many different sources of local history discovered by the authors in the course of extensive research throughout Britain and Ireland. Local history is discovered through books, local records, archives, newspapers and more.

Covering all aspects of family and local history, this edition includes new articles on beginning the search for your family history, as well as looking at areas of specific research.

There has been a huge growth of interest in local and family history in the last 30 years. This reference work caters for such interest by providing detailed summaries of the latest knowledge in related branches of history.

To assist genealogists and others decipher documents of interest for historical or family information, this text provides commentary on and tips for transcribing texts from the 1400s to 1700s.