Railway Ancestors: A Guide to the Staff Records of the Railway Companies of England and Wales 1822-1947

by David Hawkings (Author)

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  Paperback
  2008

  $4.37

  Almost every family tree will have in one of its branches a railway employee. Railway Ancestors is a comprehensive and illustrated guide which opens up to genealogists and railway enthusiasts the vast range of unique information stored in the documentary archives of the railway companies of England and Wales. It describes in detail the sources available for the researcher and how to gain access to them, giving examples of the many different types of records, and includes (among extensive appendices) the a complete alphabetical listing of all the known railway companies which existed in England and Wales prior to nationalisation - almost a thousand in total - with their dates of opening in each county, and the location of their staff records. 'invaluable to family and railway historians..' Reviewed in Heritage Railway Magazine, 18th Feb '10.

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  Hardcover
  1995

  $3.29

  This is a penetrating analysis of the presentation of military conflict ontelevision and its relationship with the military and political heirarchies, including the Korean War, Suez, Vietnam, Northern Ireland, the Falklands and Gulf conflicts, and Bosnia. Both authors have occupied positions close to the seats of military and political power: Field Marshal Sir John Stanier was previously in charge of public relations for the British Army, while Miles Hudson was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Sir Alec Douglas Home and Press Secretary to Ted Heath.