Apr 29
OK, I know … but it had to be done, right? Royal Wedding coverage is hard to avoid today, and has inspired me to dig out these images of my grandparents’ wedding and scan them at last. Quality isn’t amazing – they are scans of photocopies of originals – but they’re sweet nonetheless. Read more
I thought it might be worth looking up Jill Lepore, the Harvard professor who wrote the NYT op-ed piece I linked to here yesterday; and lo, I now have several more items on my reading list. Read more
Erin, of the excellent Alice Martin Bishop blog, has started me off on a good, brain-awakening note on this sunny Edinburgh morning by posting a link to this NYT op-ed piece by Harvard professor Jill Lepore. It contrasts the fortunes of Benjamin Franklin with those of his sister Jane. Read more
Over the past few days I’ve been working on some female ancestors from early American settler families. This has led me from town record indexes on to published genealogies of the type popular with amateur historians around the turn of the twentieth century – for instance, this one on the Brewer family (a bit unusual in that it was compiled by a woman), or this huge one about the Baldwins. Read more
I stumbled across the publicity for this talk at Duke University’s Franklin Humanities Institute about a month ago (around the time I last posted here, actually). It has now been uploaded as a video, and you can see it here. Read more
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