tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post1763355088218302520..comments2024-03-23T12:38:46.260+00:00Comments on The History Girls: 'This useful little book' - by Sheena WilkinsonMary Hoffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06241989732624913706noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-47714283579591730322017-01-09T17:06:51.466+00:002017-01-09T17:06:51.466+00:00Thanks for this! I do enjoy having ancient referen...Thanks for this! I do enjoy having ancient reference books, too. I have a Pocket Peerage from the reign of George III, and since I'm currently writing about the start of the nineteenth century, it is quite useful, when I want to invent titled persons, to see which titles weren't around then - and to investigate the details of those who were. I like to think that it's similar to the book that Sir Walter Elliot liked to peruse, only that was the Baronetage, and probably not the pocket version. I find it fascinating that they already had pocket-size books in the eighteenth century.<br />I do think ephemera really do give one a great feel for a period.Leslie Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15105465949970430998noreply@blogger.com