Course Enrollment: EN-301 English: Education, Health and Contemporary Documents

Optional Print Course Material: English: Education, Health and Contemporary Documents

*Course material will only be sent to students who are registered in the course.

This course starts with a survey of English education records including basic history and types of schools, including adult and post-secondary institutions. The emphasis is on the surviving records of students, what they contain and where to find them. We then look at health and hospital records which can be surprisingly detailed and are now becoming more available. The third section is a really mixed bag of all kinds of contemporary documents with which the student should be familiar, and which can add so much to the family history. Included are passports, records associated with death, diaries & letters, directories, newspapers, magazines, illustrations & photographs, titled and landed families, topography and much more.