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From: "Roy Stockdill" <>
Subject: [YKS] Sex, Sin & Scandal in Newspapers (was local newspapers
Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2002 12:05:44 +0000
In-Reply-To: <200206011020.g51AKNg60631@mail.freeola.enta.net>


IF any FHS programme secretaries happen to be reading this, one of
the lectures I give is called "All Human Life Is Here - Sex, Sin &
Scandal in Newspapers."

This is a rather different talk to the usual one about researching
from old newspapers (which I can also do). Basically, it's about the
fact that our ancestors were just as interested in the prurient and
scandalous tales of their day as are today's tabloid newspaper
readers. It makes the point that there is nothing new under, or
indeed in, the Sun!

It's a mostly light-hearted romp through a couple of centuries or so
of sexy, scandalous and funny stories that I've collected from
newspapers in the course of my researches. I gave this talk in
Victoria BC on my recent visit there and it was better received than
my more serious ones on writing up your family history and 1,000
years of English genealogical records!

Anyone interested in hearing it, please reply offlist.

Roy Stockdill
Editor, the Journal of One-Name Studies
Editor, "My Ancestors Were..." series (Society of Genealogists)
Web page of the Guild of One-Name Studies:- www.one-name.org
Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History:- www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html

Never ask a man if he comes from Yorkshire. If he does he will tell you, if he does not why humiliate him? - Canon Sydney Smith

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