"‘Chronicles of many strange Occurrences’: Early Modern English Parish Registers and the Memories of Local Communities" (2025)
Journal Article
Atherton, I. (in press). "‘Chronicles of many strange Occurrences’: Early Modern English Parish Registers and the Memories of Local Communities". The Seventeenth Century, https://doi.org/10.1080/0268117X.2025.2477773

English parish registers listing baptisms, marriages, and burials are commonly source mined for curiosities, but are rarely examined holistically. Building on recent work that has seen sixteenth-century registers as records of memory, this article an... Read More about "‘Chronicles of many strange Occurrences’: Early Modern English Parish Registers and the Memories of Local Communities".