Kate Tiller

This is a useful guide from an Oxford historian, who suggests where and what to look for when studying local memorials, identifies sources and ideas for research and explains how to find out more about their creation and on-going roles in local life, as well as the names of those they commemorate.

For me, the book was a reminder that memorials like these were created in a world far removed from our own, yet still subject to argument, disagreement and political and moral views, often forcibly show more expressed: just because you see a memorial to the fallen doesn't mean that it was necessarily put in place without controversy or immediately after the event(s) it commemorates.

Some good notes, recommended further reading, a list of relevant websites and an index complete this handy reference guide, published by the British Association for Local History (BALH). show less

The first of the new. Sets a standard. Moggridge appears as author.