Abstract
It is relatively well-known that many people are engaged in family and/or community history outside the universities (see Drake, this book). Less is known however about who they are, how they work, what motivates them and the outcomes of their research. This chapter fills out the picture a little through a study of some 200 projects in community history being carried on in Britain around the turn of the millennium.
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A selection from the end products completed by community historians in my study, now deposited in Mass-Observation Archive, University of Sussex Library (ISBN indicates formal publication).
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McKay, J.H. (2005). Community Historians and Their Work Around the Millennium. In: Participating in the Knowledge Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230523043_9
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