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There is a lack of serious and sustained debate about the value of family history, both in its own right and in its potential relationships to other genres and disciplines including public history.1 In this chapter I will draw attention to several of these relationships, while concentrating specifically on the relationship between family history and the archive .2
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Bashforth, M. (2009). Absent Fathers, Present Histories. In: Ashton, P., Kean, H. (eds) People and their Pasts. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230234468_12
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