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
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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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