LL-L: "Help needed" [E] LOWLANDS-L, 27.JUN.1999 (03)

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From: Pat Reynolds <pat at CAERLAS.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Local History Encyclopedia

I am copying this message from the h-local listserver.  I imagine that
some of you will have seen this message already, but I thought that most
will not have.

The message is about the Local History Encycolopedia.  Contributions are
needed in various areas - and one in particular I thought someone on
lowlands-l could write: 'regionalisms or slang'.

Now, the Encyclopedia has a natural US-bent, being a US publication, but
they are very willing and happy to include material which places what
appears to be something quite specialised in the US into a global
context which shows the underlying processes.

Please write to Carol kammen <ckk6 at cornell.edu> if you can help.

In message <930110677.207134.0 at h-net.hst.msu.edu>, Automatic digest
processor <LISTSERV at H-NET.MSU.EDU> writes
>There are 2 messages totalling 112 lines in this issue.
>
>Topics of the day:
>
>  1. Local History Encyclopedia
>...
>
>Dear All:
>
>        We are so very grateful to everyone who has responded to our call =
>for help.  Some have offered to write articles, others have suggested
>people who might be helpful to us, and others have suggested topics to add
>to the Encyclopedia.
>
>        We have a few odds and ends: not that the topics are not important =
>but they are the ones that seem to have gotten away from us.  I would like =
>to offer them up to you with this caution:  we can't pay anyone and the =
>deadline looms -- we will need copy no later than August 1.
>
>        Our greatest failure so far is that I have not been able to find
>someone to write an article about local history in France.  I have
>contacted every French person I know or have heard of, but no one is
>willing to take it on.  I have also contacted a few scholars in the US
>about this but I have had no takers.  I think it is crucial that we have =
>an
>article, perhaps 1000 words long, about what the French have been doing in =
>the past 25 years.  [We do have a good article on the Annales School so
>that subject is covered but it is not the whole story.]
>
>        This lack is glaring because of the importance of the French to =
>the writing of local history and also because we have articles about the
>writing of local history in England, Scotland, Germany, Nigeria, New
>Zealand, Australia, and Canada. [We do not have an article about
>Scandinavia which seems to me to be another omission I regret. We would
>certainly add this if someone offered to write it for us.]
>
>
>        So our needs:
>
>          Local History in France       1000 words
>
>        regionalisms or slang:                          1000
>
>        travel accounts: use of                         1000
>
>        historical fiction                              1000
>
>        demography:  as a new field and opportunities for
>                local historians                        1000
>
>
>        My last topic concerns local history museums:  for this I would
>like  views and comments of 300 to 500 words from four people:  this could
>be a historical piece, or a commentary on the changing nature of exhibits,
>or about what topics need to be addressed, etc.  I think of this as a =
>round
>table discussion without the table.
>
>        I am very conscious that the Local History Encyclopedia is the sum =
>of the goodness and colleageality of many people.  H Local is high on that
>list.
>
>        with great appreciation,  Carol
>
>carol kammen <ckk6 at cornell.edu>

--
Pat Reynolds
pat at caerlas.demon.co.uk
   "It might look a bit messy now, but just you come back in 500 years time"
   (T. Pratchett)



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