Six north country diaries

By John Crawford Hodgson

Book Overview

Six North Country Diaries opens a door into rooms long vanished, yet instantly recognisable: kitchens, streets and chapels where real lives quietly unfolded. These voices feel startlingly present. Edited by the noted Northumberland historian John C. Hodgson, this historical diary collection gathers six primary source historical diaries from the north of England, offering an intimate record of daily life in northern England and the textures of provincial english town life. It is at once an english local history sourcebook and a distinctive british diary collections anthology, weaving together small observations and local happenings into a vivid strand of northumberland and durham history. For readers of historical diaries, social historians and local researchers, it stands as both evidence and narrative, both record and story. As british social history diaries, these pages give names, places and relationships that can illuminate parish registers and family trees, making the volume a valuable resource for genealogy research as well as a trusted reference for social historians exploring early modern northern england. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure. Serious students of the past will value its meticulous detail; casual readers will find themselves drawn into the candid, often unexpected immediacy of lives lived far away in time yet still astonishingly close to our own.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9353605806
• ISBN13: 9789353605803
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Alpha Edition
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"