Brown Study: A Question of Edwardian Identity by Tim Harding One of the problems historians have to confront is not to mix up the people we want to write about, and in fact there was a good book on this subject in 1973, by E. A. Wrigley, called Identifying People in the Past. An updated work on this subject is badly needed in the Internet era, now that there are so many digitised sources for family history, but it needs to be done by somebody who is an expert in using genealogical sources of the hard copy variety as well as electronic sources. Maybe John Townsend, who has written two books of this type of research to do with chess players of the early nineteenth century, would care to … [Read more...]