By acknowledging and studying British kinship rather than considering it an anachronism by noticing the inter-related clusters of the nineteenth century city and countryside the use of kin behaviour to bulwark against potential economic adversity emerges with similarities to the more recent migrations into Britain.

It is quite difficult not to notice that parts of British society are in the midst of a fascination with genealogy. The success and endurance of this current phase of genealogical interest is rooted in the packaging and selling of family history, as your family, your history, sustained by increasing body of primary records being readily available at a relatively cheap cost.

Secondary Materials used for talk at Cambridge 2022

In order to get a fuller understanding of the role of kinship in nineteenth century British society it is important to explore the nuance of the kinship-feminism encounter.

Who decides: who was kin to whom? Ideally past people!