The Surname Detective

The Surname DetectiveFrom the author of The Family Tree Detective, this guide provides the amateur genealogist or family historian with the skills to research the distribution and history of a surname. Colin Rogers uses a sample of 100 names, many of them common, to follow the migration of people through the centuries. Each of the 100 names is mapped since the Doomsday book in 1086. For those whose name is not among the sample, the book shows how to find out where

science and friendship

the book explores how ghosts

media and film studies

but also a global one of increasing neoliberal domination legitimated by liberal social politics

playwright

Montage is an informed and highly original study in the styles and histories of film editing

in post-war England

but science can also be seen as complicit in processes of colonial domination

it challenges existing modes of cultural heritage reconstruction and envisages gentler

”—Ruth Barton

Beginning with a general overview of the topic by Roger Allen

This book examines laughter in the Shakespearean theatre in the context of a cultural history of early modern laughter