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"Selling Ancestry: Family Directories and the Commodification of Genealogy in Eighteenth Century Britain" by Stéphane Jettot explores the significance and uses of family directories in eighteenth-century Britain. The author argues that these directories, containing information on elite families, are important historical sources that have been overlooked by historians. The book examines the various types of directories, their political implications, and their unintended consequences, such as being used for radical or reformist purposes. It also delves into the correspondence between families and publishers, revealing how genealogies were used to navigate elite society and shape social boundaries. Overall, the book provides valuable insights into the role of genealogy in eighteenth-century Britain. [Extracted from the article]

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Rather than using these letters to isolate how individuals behaved in public spaces, Henkes is more interested in how individuals related to family members once they no longer shared the same national community. Primarily based on interviews and autobiographical writings, Henkes analysis of Ton-Seyler's response to German and Dutch culture shifts the focus to "undoing nation" and the search for belonging. Henkes' inclusion of Rie Ton-Seyler's experience provides a direct contrast and an opportunity to interrogate the role of identity politics in shaping reactions to National Socialist violence. [Extracted from the article]

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The contract was signed by eighty-three witnesses in the parish of Notre Dame de la Peine, Angoulême, in southwestern France, on December 9, 1764. The groom was in the process of becoming a schoolmaster, while the bride's brother Gabriel Ferrand was in the same trade, suggesting (to this reviewer, anyway; Rothschild does not mention it) that the couple met each other through Gabriel. Estienne Allemand (later called Allemand Lavigerie or just Lavigerie) lived to the east of Notre Dame de la Peine, in the parish of St. Antonin, near the rue de la Cloche Verte. [Extracted from the article]

The company archives and the Skinner family have provided the majority of the lavish amount of illustration. Bert and Carl's various cars bought at this time convinced them that what was needed was something which would provide the correct air-fuel mix at any engine speed without having to constantly fiddle about with an air valve control on the dashboard, which was the norm in the early 1900s. When Skinner's Union was taken into the Morris empire, in 1926, it was allowed to operate almost as before - as an almost autonomous company supplying to the parent company, which was apparently Morris's preferred way of running the companies he took in. [Extracted from the article]

A review of the book "The House That Whispers," by Lin Thompson, is presented.

The groom was in the process of becoming a schoolmaster, while the bride's brother Gabriel Ferrand was in the same trade, suggesting (to this reviewer, anyway; Rothschild does not mention it) that the couple met each other through Gabriel. The contract was signed by eighty-three witnesses in the parish of Notre Dame de la Peine, Angoulême, in southwestern France, on December 9, 1764. Estienne Allemand (later called Allemand Lavigerie or just Lavigerie) lived to the east of Notre Dame de la Peine, in the parish of St. Antonin, near the rue de la Cloche Verte. [Extracted from the article]

Reviews the book "'Alse sunst hir gebruchlich is': Eine Annäherung an das spätmittelalterliche und früh-neuzeitliche Alltags- und Familienleben anhand der Selbstzeugnisse der Familien Brandis in Hildesheim und Moller in Hamburg," by Sünje Prühlen.

Yet Evans finds that family historians are perhaps more concerned with the process of family history, the increasingly absorbing quest to uncover private stories, many of them forgotten or concealed behind veils of family mythology. Evans worked closely with a range of genealogical and family history societies and surveyed 136 family historians to document a vibrant field of community-based historical endeavour that exists independently of history as practised in universities. In doing so, she has tapped into the stellar levels of popularity family history enjoys in the community as well as a sense that academics are starting to take family history seriously. [Extracted from the article]

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A review of the book "Accomplished: A Georgie Darcy Novel," by Amanda Quain, is presented.

Romantic impulses govern the fraught, family histories in these poems on conflicts that disrupt or threaten loss to lovers. InIsabellaKeats explores a young woman’s resistance to her brothers’ machinations. InThe Eve of St. AgnesMadeline confronts an uncertain future, either in her family’s bastion or in Porphyro’s domains. The attention to romantic energy in both poems discloses Keats’s entrance into the manners, attitudes, striking poses that dominate the participants in mercantile and feudal realms. To what these participants say and do, he contributes elements of dirge, musical instruments, furnishings, stark landscapes, and historic accounts of cruelties and exploitation. Mythical allusion, unexpected humour, dream dialogue contribute to the embrace of the inexplicable. The texture of the poems argues that Keats’s engagement with family history is a recognition that the milieus he creates have an afterlife, that the recovery of an imagined past is not limiting but has currency for his own time future generations. His engagement with family history also draws him to his own circumstances, for, he turns to his own romantic desires, writing to George and Georgianna Keats that he believes that he will be among the English poets. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]