Miscellaneous items I found interesting this week.
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This Little World: A New History of Tudor and Stuart England
At 2:30 PM ET on 11 November, historian Nandini Das in conversation with Neil Johnston, Head of Early Modern Records at The National Archives (UK).
Tracing the Spread of Celtic and Germanic Languages Using Ancient Genomics (Video)
A First Full-Count Linking of English and Welsh Censuses, 1851–1921
This publication in the Cambridge Working Papers in Economic and Social History series successfully linked 56.26% of all ‘linkable’ individuals between successive censuses across the entire period. The paper describes the method in detail, which relies heavily on a technique proposed in 1969 by Ivan Fellegi (former head of Statistics Canada) and co-author Alan Sunter.
The Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum
The integration of the Oxfordshire Aviation Archive, which provides family and military historians access to new personal papers, flight logs, and service records, was recently completed.
London’s Poverty Maps – Discover Where Your Ancestors Lived
Thanks to the following individuals for their comments and tips: Anonymous, Elise, Gail, Glenn Wright, Teresa, Unknown.
