Newman / Ricketts / Collett-White The Turner Letters

Letters from Home: from Milton Ernest, Bedfordshire to St Andrews, New Brunswick, 1830-1845
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-80010-639-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 97, 398 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Publications Bedfordshire Hist Rec Soc

The Turner Letters cover the years 1830-45 and give a lively view of life in a rural village in times of upheaval.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Newman, David

Ricketts, Bob

Collett-White, James

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
The Turner and Pain Families
John Turner's Milton Ernest 1809-62
Themes in the Turner Letters
The Turner Letters
The People and Places of John Turner's Milton Ernest Walk Letters

Appendix 1: Timeline of Events in the United Kingdom and Bedford 1825-45
Appendix 2: Timeline of the Turner Family in Canada 1830-91
Appendix 3: New Brunswick Newspaper Transcripts
Appendix 4: The Wreck of the Wellington
Appendix 5: Milton Ernest Parish Census 1841
Appendix 6: Postal Routes and Rates
Appendix 7: Genealogical Charts
Appendix 8: Maps

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Newman David:
David Newman was born in Bedfordshire and moved to Milton Ernest in 1992 where he was elected as a Parish Councillor in 2003. Being interested in local history he was surprised that no book had ever been written about the village and after many years of research rectified this by writing The Importance of Milton Ernest, which was published in 2006Ricketts Bob:
Bob Ricketts CBE was educated at Bedford Modern School and the University of Cambridge, where he developed a lifelong passion for history. He served in senior positions in the NHS, Department of Health and NHS England for forty-one years before retiring in 2020. He is chairman of Bedfordshire Historical Record Society and Bedford Architectural, Archaeological and Local History Society, and editor of Bedford Local History Magazine. In 2019 he co-authored Bedford History Timeline: Over a thousand Years of the Town's HistoryCollett-White James:
James Collett-White is an archivist and has worked at the Isle of Wight Record Office (1970-1974), Bedfordshire Archives and Records Service (1975-2012) and has been Archivist to Sir Samuel Whitbread since 1997. He has contributed to several BHRS volumes and was, for a short time, the Society's general editor. He has published articles to celebrate the hundredth anniversaries of Bedfordshire Archives and Records Service and BHRS and researches, lectures and writes on history in Bedfordshire. He is working with Bob Ricketts and David Newman on another volume for BHRS on the Turner family of Milton Ernest.