Personal Enthusiasms - the truth about Victorian England
Every student of history develops particular enthusiasms and passions. One of mine is the experience of the ordinary people of Victorian England.
My interest in Glemsford's past was, if not sparked, then hugely boosted when the late Trevor Collinson gave me access to the remaining early Log Books of Glemsford School.
My attempt to do justice to them is published elsewhere in the Glemsford pages of this site - in several pieces!
The arrival of all the information about the Brown family only fuelled my enthusiasm further.
And I have said before how jealous I am of the wonderful Foxearth web site, with its vast array of brilliant photos and massive index of newspaper stories (just for a start).
However, it has excelled itself with the recent addition of an extract from a late 19th Century newspaper detailing the conditions in which the ordinary people of Suffolk had to exist at that time.
You can read this account by following this link.
It makes salutary reading, and it certainly puts into perspective the realities we perhaps rush past in our attempt to construct a bigger and broader Family Tree.
My interest in Glemsford's past was, if not sparked, then hugely boosted when the late Trevor Collinson gave me access to the remaining early Log Books of Glemsford School.
My attempt to do justice to them is published elsewhere in the Glemsford pages of this site - in several pieces!
The arrival of all the information about the Brown family only fuelled my enthusiasm further.
And I have said before how jealous I am of the wonderful Foxearth web site, with its vast array of brilliant photos and massive index of newspaper stories (just for a start).
However, it has excelled itself with the recent addition of an extract from a late 19th Century newspaper detailing the conditions in which the ordinary people of Suffolk had to exist at that time.
You can read this account by following this link.
It makes salutary reading, and it certainly puts into perspective the realities we perhaps rush past in our attempt to construct a bigger and broader Family Tree.
posted by Steve Clarke at 10:10 am
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