New Library World: Volume 87 Issue 9

An Account of One's Descent

DAVID REID

Genealogy as a social phenomenon has, if you will excuse the pun, a long pedigree. Historically it was a method of social definition for the established, aristocratic and landed…

Sheffield Women's Book Fair

MELINDA RILEY, BRIAN LANTZ, MIKE CORNFORD, TONY WARSHAW, JANE LITTLE, EDWIN FLEMING, ALLAN BUNCH, WILFRED ASHWORTH

The idea for this hugely successful event at the Crucible Theatre on 7 June, came first from the pages of New Library World, believe it or not. Reading one of Jane Little's…