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Andrew Hobbs
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19/20C provincial print cultures Open-access book Diaries of Anthony Hewitson, Provincial Journalist 1865-87 https://t.co/pM9bQ0y1SR

Jul 5, 2019, 5 tweets

#FlashHistories Philip Carter of @ihr_history on brevity in historical writing

Aubrey's Brief Lives (still v readable and funny) good, but not the first

National biographies continued the tradition - Dictionary of National Biography, ac length of entries 1000 words

Aubrey's gossip and judgments gave permission to later writers to do the same

Brief lives -- collective biographies (prosopography, horrible word) used by historians to cover topics today

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