Most of the history you're familiar with is Great History: the ways of nations, great lives, great battles, great inventions. Yet all that greatness is rooted in the rich earth of small history: the ways of obscure individuals and communities, the events that could happen to anybody. Past Presented exists to bring you examples of small history; the history of which you are a vital part.
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MARY BARKER
You know- novelist, poet, friend of Wordsworth etc.- that Mary Barker.
CUMBRIA
Lucinda's tour to the Lake District, c1781
The beach bungalows of Lowside Quarter
The great storms of 1795-6
Workington Albums picture index
News from Cumbria, 1736 [to be expanded]
News from Cumbria, 1776-79
Allonby news index (mostly 19th century)
John Paul Jones in Whitehaven, 1778
bonus! John Paul Jones & Bonhomme Richard, 1779
Index to poems by Charles Graham of Penrith, 1778
Death at the circus, Whitehaven, 1836
A Whitehaven panorama, c1839
The Parton Project!
The Eskdale Project!!
Views around Millom steelworks, 1968
Views of Calder Abbey and vicinity, c1971
Fireworks and tall ships, Whitehaven, 2002
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
Lost Mansfield
Nottingham's Millennium parties
JURASSIC SEVENTIES
Pictures of rock bands live, 1975-6
ODDMENTS
Stormy Weather (in the 18th century)
Dark-age chronologies in parallel
Views around the Lune estuary, Lancashire, 1975-6
A very cynical 18th century "Devil's Dictionary"
The Vinland Map and other controversies
"Plain truth will influence half a score of men at most in a nation, or an age, while mystery will lead millions by the nose.": Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke, in a letter dated 1721.