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jacey11) 21/3/11
Pamela Cooksey: Joseph Wood 1750 – 1821, A Yorkshire Quaker
A biography of Joseph Wood who lived in my village two hundred years ago and left hundreds of notebooks, letters and ephemera which have survived in a private family collection as a hugely important archive contributing greatly to Quaker studies and 18th century studies.
I came at this from a local history point of view. Joseph chronicled daily happenings, interactions with his neighbours and accounts of his travels. Sadly the author is far more interested in Joseph's life, his Quaker ministry and his travels, so though I found it interesteing to a certain extent I am less interested in Joseph Wood's fairth, ministry and travels than I am in his house (New House Farm - still standing), his neightbours, his cloth business (mentioned but never in detail) and the daily life in the village in which he lived.
Sadly this book, though fascinating in itself, barely touches on them, however, Pamela Cooksey has transcribed Joseph's notebooks for eventual lodging in an accessible collection and thus a closer reading of them might reveal what I need ad an amateur local historian.
Pamela Cooksey: Joseph Wood 1750 – 1821, A Yorkshire Quaker
A biography of Joseph Wood who lived in my village two hundred years ago and left hundreds of notebooks, letters and ephemera which have survived in a private family collection as a hugely important archive contributing greatly to Quaker studies and 18th century studies.
I came at this from a local history point of view. Joseph chronicled daily happenings, interactions with his neighbours and accounts of his travels. Sadly the author is far more interested in Joseph's life, his Quaker ministry and his travels, so though I found it interesteing to a certain extent I am less interested in Joseph Wood's fairth, ministry and travels than I am in his house (New House Farm - still standing), his neightbours, his cloth business (mentioned but never in detail) and the daily life in the village in which he lived.
Sadly this book, though fascinating in itself, barely touches on them, however, Pamela Cooksey has transcribed Joseph's notebooks for eventual lodging in an accessible collection and thus a closer reading of them might reveal what I need ad an amateur local historian.
