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Local Studies Library - Handbook For Local Historians. by Diana Winterbotham and Alan Crosby

Local Studies Library - Handbook For Local Historians. 

by Diana Winterbotham and Alan Crosby.

 Local Studies Library - Handbook For Local Historians. by Diana Winterbotham and Alan Crosby

 Paperback: 120 pages
Publisher: British Association for Local History, 1st edition 1998.
Later editions may have been published by Phillimore.
ISBN-10: 1860770940
ISBN-13: 978-1860770944
Product Dimensions: 24 x 17.4 x 0.8 cm
 

List of illustrations  iv
Acknowledgements  
Editor's foreword  vi
About the authors vii
1. Using local studies libraries   1
Introduction  1
Local history or local studies? 2
Documentary material  3
Visiting the local studies library  4
Access to the material   6
Bibliographies and guides 7
Using special equipment  9
Preparing for research 10
Miss now ... pay later 11
And finally ... library rules  12
2. Published local histories 14
Town and village histories 14
County and regional histories 22
3. Serial publications 27
4. Newspapers  34
Using newspapers  37
Guides and indexes to newspapers  39
Newspaper cuttings  41
5. Directories and gazetteers  42
Using the directories  46
Gazetteers  50
Directories on microfilm  53
Electoral registers 53
6. Census records  55
The enumerators' returns  55
Availability of returns in libraries  57
The printed census  58
The religious census of 1851  59
7. Parliamentary papers  61
Finding parliamentary papers  64
Using sessional sets  64
Referring to parliamentary papers 66
Microform sets of sessional papers  68
8. Acts of Parliament  69
Public acts  70
Local and personal acts   72
9. Local authority records 73
10. Maps and plans  81
Early printed maps 81
Eighteenth and nineteenth century maps 82
Ordnance Survey maps 84
Identifying local Ordnance Survey sheets  87
Town plans 87
Other maps  87
Date of survey  90
11. Audio and visual resources 91
Non-photographic illustrations  91
Photographs  94
Aerial photographs 98
Colour in photographs 99
Slides, film and video recordings  99
Oral recordings 101
12. Ephemera  102
13. Local history in the classroom: using the library as a resource 106
Searching the local studies collections   106
Suitable project material   107
Using maps 107
Census enumerators' returns  108
Newspapers & trade directories   109
Illustrations   110
Oral history   111
Family history   111
14. A note on copyright   112
What is copyright?   112
Using copyright material   113
Private study by a researcher  114
Classroom teaching 114
Publication   114
Some useful addresses   115
Notes and references  116 


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