Sons of the Soil: researching our British agricultural labouring ancestors
Janet Few, Ph.D.
Content
Welcome
43s
Speaker's Introduction
54s
Introduction
2m 58s
Timeline of British Agriculture
8m 0s
General View
5m 57s
Land Tax Returns
7m 9s
Newspapers
8m 57s
Farm Buildings
6m 45s
Announcements / prizes
47s
Questions / answers
2m 54s
About this webinar
Every family has them, ancestors who worked on the land. How can we find out more about them, the farms where they worked and the lives that they led? This session covers a range of sources, many of them under-used, which will help to shed light on the working lives of our rural British ancestors.
About the speaker
Janet Few is a British family, social and community historian who has lectured across the English-speaking world and at sea. She is an author of both historical fiction and non-fiction, as well as man...
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Comments (16)
Great information. Thank you
Loads and loads of information!!! Well worth attending!
So many avenues to pursue
So much excellent information and so clearly presented. Many thanks
this would be a good webinar for anyone writing historical fiction. i can imagine all kinds of plots using these details. thank you
A huge amount of information and was well presented.
A fast overview with lots of things to think about and ways to research and give more meaning to the lives of those listed as 'Ag. Lab.'
Lots of links and ideas all new to me,