Monthly Archives: July 2004

Magna Carta sureties: libertarians or robber barons?

Friday, July 30, 2004

I broke down and had my copy of James Anderson’s Royal Genealogies (second printing, 1735) rebacked five years ago, but told the binder to retain the interesting bookplate which was there when I bought it: the bookplate of the ‘Magna Charta Library’ of the ‘National Society Magna Charta Dames’. It has the arms of the [...]

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Facing our Ancestors (in old photographs)

Thursday, July 22, 2004

Three Daguerreotypes sat in the box with a make-up compact, a pill box, and little cut-glass dish, and two sandwich bags filled mostly with coins from Vichy France. The box was addressed to ‘Nathaniel Taylor, Historian’, and sent by my wife’s aunt.
I had never looked seriously into old cased photographs, though in my own family, [...]

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