English Historiography - Antiquarian authors, historians, genealogists, topographers

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: England
Surnames/tags: England History

This sub-project is associated with the England Project

The coordinator is Vivienne Caldwell

Definition:

• Historians, genealogists, antiquarian authors and topographers born in England and whose works are widely used by genealogists and historians.

Mission:

• To have comprehensive biographies for the profiles of the people defined above
• Identify individual and collective motivations of antiquarian, genealogical and historical writers
• Collate evidence of their strengths, weaknesses and reliability

First tasks:

• Identify significant writers of this genre
• Categorise profiles as appropriate within Wikitree
• Identify and create a bibliography of resources for further reading and research

Contents 1 The Authors 2 Articles 2.1 General 2.2 Medieval and Earlier 2.3 Post Medieval 3 Sources

The Authors

(more to come)

Name	Wikitree ID
Daniel Lysons	Lysons-11
John Foxe	Foxe-21
William Camden	Camden-94
Sir Richard Colt Hoare	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Richard_Hoare,_2nd_Baronet
Ralph Thoresby	Thoresby-8
John Stow	Stow-1133
Richard Carew	Carew-78
George Ormerod	Ormerod-217
Sir Peter Leycester	Leycester-44
Edward Hasted	Hasted-45
George Cockayne	Adams-25246
Francis Blomefield	Blomefield-35
Thomas Allen	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Allen_(topographer)
Thomas Walker Horsefield	Horsfield-118
William Dugdale	Dugdale-143
James Dallaway	Dallaway-21
Owen Manning	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Manning
George Lipscomb	Lipscomb-572
Charles Parkin	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Parkin
John Smith	Smith-7466

Articles

The following articles are a small sample and will be expanded and annotated. They may be available through the electronic collections of your local library.

General

• Fox, Adam. “Remembering the Past in Early Modern England: Oral and Written Tradition.” Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 9 (December 1999): 233–56. https://doi.org/10.2307/3679402.
• Woolf, D R. “The ‘Common Voice’: History, Folklore and Oral Tradition in Early Modern England.” Past & Present, no. 120 (August 1988): 26–52.

Medieval and Earlier

• Ketelaar, Eric. “The Genealogical Gaze: Family Identities and Family Archives in the Fourteenth to Seventeenth Centuries.” Libraries & the Cultural Record 44, no. 1 (2009): 9–28. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25549534. Also available at https://fketelaa.home.xs4all.nl/GenealogicalGaze.pdf
• Kleinman, Scott. “The Legend of Havelok the Dane and the Historiography of East Anglia.” Studies in Philology 100, no. 3 (2003): 245–77. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4174759.
• Spiegel, Gabrielle M. “Genealogy: Form and Function in Medieval Historical Narrative.” History and Theory 22, no. 1 (1983): 43–53. https://doi.org/10.2307/2505235.

Post Medieval

• Levy, F. J. “How Information Spread among the Gentry, 1550-1640.” Journal of British Studies 21, no. 2 (April 1, 1982): 11–34. https://doi.org/10.1086/385788.
• Mallonee, Robert William. “The Study of History and the Evolution of Historiography in Late Tudor and Early Stuart England.” Master’s Theses. Paper 2310, Loyola University, 1967. http://ecommon s.luc.edu/luc_the ses/2310.
• Phillips, Mark. “Reconsiderations on History and Antiquarianism: Arnaldo Momigliano and the Historiography of Eighteenth-Century Britain.” Journal of the History of Ideas 57, no. 2 (April 1, 1996): 297–316. https://doi.org/10.1353/jhi.1996.0020.
• Zaller, Robert. Review of Review of The Rise and Fall of Revolutionary England: An Essay on the Fabrication of Seventeenth-Century History, by Alastair MacLachlan. Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies 29, no. 2 (1997): 291–94. https://doi.org/10.2307/4051828.
• Little, Hannah Mary. “Genealogy as Theatre of Self-Identity: A Study of Genealogy as a Cultural Practice within Britain since c. 1850.” PhD, University of Glasgow, 2010. http://encore.lib.gla.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2710509.

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