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Who do you think you are?
Sources for your past and place: how to find them, how to use them

Saturday 29th September 2012
10.00 am – 4.00 pm

Tutor: Professor Richard Morris

Discovering who you are involves tracking down and combining different kinds of evidence - wills, names, relationships, occupations, census and tax records, old newspapers, pictures, things that people made, tools they used, clothes they wore.  Further back, archaeology and its auxiliary sciences are all we have.

Such work is challenging; this course introduces you to how it is done. As an example, we shall set out to find who has been living in Toad Hall for the last four hundred years: who they were, where they came from and what they did. In the process we shall meet members of history’s silent majority and ask: how can we find out about the millions of ordinary people in the past who wrote little or nothing about themselves, and about whom few surviving records were kept?

The day will make use original documents, and materials discovered during the archaeological training excavations undertaken since 2009, and will culminate in disclosure of the scientific dating of Blackden's oldest-known occupant so far.

Please bring a packed lunch. Drinks and biscuits will be served during the day.  

Course fees
£45.00
Early bird £42.50
Concessions £35.00
Early bird £33.00

To reserve a place
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Tel: 01477 571445
By post:
The Blackden Trust
Blackden
Holmes Chapel
Cheshire
CW4 8BY
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Use the link below to read more about the tutor for this course:

Richard Morris, Professor of Conflict and Culture, The University of Huddersfield

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