Kathrina Perry - Local Historian

Thoughts on the forthcoming 1921 Census Release The news is out that the 1921 census will be released on 6th January 2022. It will be exclusively on Find My Past and on a pay as you go basis initially. After the initial excitement (and whinging about the costs) here are my thoughts on how to approach it.  The 1921 census will be the last census revealed until 2052 for several reasons. The Census Act of 1920 means that documents must remain secret for 100 years, and with the 1931 Census being destroyed in 1942 and no census being taken in 1941 due to the Second World War there is a long wait until the next one.  1. Make a list of who you need to look for  Let's face it, with the £2.50 per transcript view and £3.50 per original image, the cost can still stock up so my advice would be making a list of who you know should be on the census.  I plan to make a list for both my family tree and my PhD research, and I know that for my PhD alone I will have at least thirty reco...

  Looking for Ladies: The Importance of Local History in Women’s History Local history and women’s history are often considered two separate arms of historical research. However, local history resources can be vital in telling women’s story, particularly when considering those who are often left out of the national historical picture. Considering approaches to both women’s history and local history acknowledges comparison of methodologies which in turn allows for development of further studies between the two specialisms. Charles Pythian-Adams argues that academic local history tends to be inspired by geographical subject matter which sees the separation of town and rural with the categories of urban history and agrarian history. [1] If local history is a study of people in a specific geographical local, why are women so often omitted form the local history studies? It takes methodologies such as prosopography and collective biography to draw out the histories of these women a...