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  • Look Back - But Not in Anger? A Manchester Boyhood

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    The following is an extract from A Manchester Boyhood, the recently-published autobiography of Professor Donald Read, a past-president of the Historical Association. His book seeks to set his personal experience during the nineteen-thirties and forties within the troubled history of the time. His opinions, some of which may be found...
    Look Back - But Not in Anger? A Manchester Boyhood
  • Recent Advances in the Study of Surnames

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    Many surnames have a straightforward meaning. It is obvious that names such as Smith, Wright and Turner come from occupations; that names such as Pickering or York are from the names of places; and that Roberts, Robertson, Robson and Robinson are derived from the same personal name. It is not...
    Recent Advances in the Study of Surnames