Frank Sharman said At 10:56 29/12/01 +0000, you wrote:
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>I am also not sure that many local historians are very much interested
>in how the local picture fits in to the national picture. I have an
>idea that quite a lot are not interested at all. What local people seem
>to be interested in is what happened on their patch - and, preferably,
>what happened there within their own lifetime and that of their parents
>and grandparents.>
Well in my case it is not so much a case of not being interested but in
being overwhelmed. If you are starting small - it is too discouraging to
try to cover a national perspective. I have tried to get around it by
placing my great grandparents in their time slot and then fitting in
national events that I think may have concerned their lives, - e.g. the
Great Exhibition, the Crimean War etc, but unless you have personal
diaries, you really cannot guess what effect these may have had on their
lives if any.
Eunice in Queensland
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