Radical Family History

Moving Stories

Julia Laite 26 January 202219 January 2023

How can the stories of families illuminate the histories of migrations?

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Difficult Stories and Ethical Dilemmas in Family History

Julia Laite 30 September 202119 January 2023

What are we doing when we research and tell stories of families, whether other peoples' families or our own?

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Family History: The Next Generation?

Sophie Scott-Brown 20 September 202120 January 2023

Family history is in robust health, after years in the scholarly wilderness. Sophie Scott-Brown looks at new horizons for this rich seam of history, colliding private with public and biology with culture in provocative ways

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Beyond the Nuclear: The Caribbean Family

Leighan Renaud 12 August 202031 October 2022

What models of love and support get lost if we cling to a linear model of family life? Leighan Renaud calls for a model of genealogical enquiry rooted in a decolonised, expansive and 'matrifocal' understanding of the Caribbean family.

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A Family History from Berlin to Glasgow: Memories of Dumbarton Road by Martin Chalmers

Esther Kinsky 7 May 201913 December 2022

A glimpse into post-war Glasgow life, via the Ruhr, from the unpublished memoirs of Martin Chalmers

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Family historians, collaboration and a new history from below methodology – or, sharing history over a cup of tea

Laura King 6 March 201912 January 2023

How can different types of historian work together? Laura King argues that collaboration with family historians has the potential to galvanise academic research.

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Family History and My Huguenot Ancestors

Janet Coles 27 February 201931 October 2022

'Family history lends a different perspective'. Family historian Janet Coles on tracing her Huguenot refugee ancestry.

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Family History in the Digital Age

Mark Crail 20 February 201912 January 2023

In the second article of our feature on the radical potential of family history, family historian Mark Crail reflects on the power of collaboration in the history of working-class movements.

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How do Family Historians Work with Memory?

Tanya Evans 6 February 201912 January 2023

Not just nostalgia: family historians are at the forefront of challenges to traditional histories that are 'gendered, classed, raced and heteronormative', argues public historian Tanya Evans.

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Radical Family History

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Moving Stories

Difficult Stories and Ethical Dilemmas in Family History

Family History: The Next Generation?

Beyond the Nuclear: The Caribbean Family

A Family History from Berlin to Glasgow: Memories of Dumbarton Road by Martin Chalmers

Family historians, collaboration and a new history from below methodology – or, sharing history over a cup of tea

Family History and My Huguenot Ancestors

Family History in the Digital Age

How do Family Historians Work with Memory?