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What’s it all about?
The boar of the web address is an
abbreviation of The Bourne Archive. This is historical material
which tends to look at the development of the world from the perspective of a
small town in Lincolnshire.
On the whole, the nearer to Bourne,
the more detailed is the information.
The aim with the
Bourne Archive is to publish archive material with some of the small historical
and geographical studies I have been gathering, so that the information in them
can be seen and developed. I have set about the job in a reasonably formal way
so that others have the information they need for pursuing subjects but I have
tried not to be so formal that only trained academics can penetrate the jargon.
One reason for this is that I am not a trained academic myself but
also, I have favoured studies which present historical topics in the light of
another discipline so that new angles of view might show subjects in a new
light. In any case, generalists have much to contribute. It does mean that
specialist historians will sometimes be faced with the vocabulary of another discipline
but I hope hyperlinks will often make it easy to check up on side issues like
this.
The material is all chosen with a view to
accounting for how we came to be as we are but falls into several categories.
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The archive proper consists of
transcriptions and summaries of old documents: some published and some not.
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Some of these are accompanied by
commentaries
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Some periods, particularly the eleventh
and seventeenth centuries can be approached by their separate routes.
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There are original studies on the
History of Bourne and its environs.
Each category has its own home page, accessible from the Archive
Contents page. Some pages are linked in this way, more than once, as they form
parts of more than one field of study. That is the approach of this site: not
taking too narrow a view. However, even a wide view is composed of details –
lots of them.
That is one of the problems;
getting a significant part of the available material transcribed and edited.
The second is learning about the internet technology.
If you wonder why I am using Word for composing the site; the
answer is that I have not found anything better for this sort of work. It seems
less prescriptive than most web editors and it fills the screen with the
relevant material rather than with peripherals and spaces which must be left in
case someone out there has a small screen. The
The pages are of three sorts:
1. those
like this one, which are primarily for linking towards the substance of the
site;
2. the
interactive pages which contain links to facilitate exploration of the subject
and
3. those
designed to present the documents, uncluttered by links and notes.
The first includes coloured decorative material and is not designed
for printing. The second is designed, except where there are pictures, for
reproduction in monochrome but includes some colour and tends to be visually
cluttered by links. The third has no links and the small amount of colour in it
is optional unless it includes photographs, which will be there for a purpose
other than decoration.
The
archive documents themselves are mostly but not all, out of copyright but the
web pages, photographs, commentary and the pieces of original work are
copyright © in the name of one person or another.
RJP
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