Family Secrets: Questioning the Past

Authors

  • Jean Barr Emeritus Professor at the University of Glasgow

Keywords:

family history, slavery, wealth, inheritance, landed aristocracy, cover-ups

Abstract

I opened the antique chest I inherited from my great-great uncle Alexander and began unravelling the strands of his life as an evangelical minister in late nineteenth-century Italy, bringing to light the cover-ups in Britain’s history of Empire and the ways in which a handful of families even today continue to shore up their wealth.

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Published

18-Dec-2024

Issue

Vol. 15 No. 3 (2024): Winter

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Copyright (c) 2024 Jean Barr

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How to Cite

“Family Secrets: Questioning the Past” (2024) Concept: The Journal of Contemporary Community Education Practice Theory, 15(3), p. 9. Available at: https://concept.lib.ed.ac.uk/Concept/article/view/10161 (Accessed: 6 June 2025).