Tracing Your Family History in Hertfordshire

Tracing Your Family History in Hertfordshire
Author: Margaret Ward
Publisher: Univ of Hertfordshire Press
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2003
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780954218928

"This practical and comprehensive guide provides an introduction for family historians to trace their ancestors in Hertfordshire. It is thematic in approach, the chapters incorporating related material on subjects as broad as military ancestors and the poor and the sick"--Publisher's description.

The Origins of Hertfordshire

The Origins of Hertfordshire
Author: Tom Williamson
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2000
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780719044915

Looks at the origins of the county and the early evolution of its landscape, and emphasises the surprising extent of continuity in structures of territorial organisation.

Being Bewitched

Being Bewitched
Author: Kirsten C. Uszkalo
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2017-03-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0271090987

In 1622, thirteen-year-old Elizabeth Jennings fell strangely ill. After doctors’ treatments proved useless, her family began to suspect the child had been bewitched, a suspicion that was confirmed when Elizabeth accused their neighbor Margaret Russell of witchcraft. In the events that followed, witchcraft hysteria intertwines with family rivalries, property disputes, and a web of supernatural beliefs. Starting from a manuscript account of the bewitchment, Kirsten Uszkalo sets the story of Elizabeth Jennings against both the specific circumstances of the powerful Jennings family and the broader history of witchcraft in early modern England. Fitting together the intricate pieces of this complex puzzle, Uszkalo reveals a story that encompasses the iron grip of superstition, the struggle among professionalizing medical specialties, and London’s lawless and unstoppable sprawl. In the picture that emerges, we see the young Elizabeth, pinned like a live butterfly at the dark center of a web of greed and corruption, sickness and lunacy.