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The closely printed pages of each monthly issue of the Gentleman’s Magazine in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries provides a snapshot of Georgian and Victorian society. The rich, the aspiring, the ordinary, and the eccentric all jostle for space alongside artisans, tradesmen, shopkeepers, clergy, criminals, paupers, and beggars.
Every column inch of print provides vital details for our family trees but also preserves precious insights into the everyday world of our ancestors, allowing us to glimpse the lives, aspirations, personalities, and characters of our ancestors and the communities they formed part of two centuries ago.
Julian Pooley F.S.A. is Public Services and Engagement Manager at Surrey History Centre in Woking and has been a professional archivist for nearly forty years. His research interests focus on the history of the book trade and the work of early local historians, and he has published widely in the field of eighteenth-century antiquarianism and literary biography. He is an Honorary Visiting Fellow of the School of History, Politics and International Relations, University of Leicester.
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