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  • Page Updated:
    14/09/2007
  • Author:
    Lucy Powell
A to Z Index

Keywords

The editor writes:

Keywords are used in abstracts and sometimes in a separate indexing field listed in drop-down menus on the Guided Search page

News & Notices are used sparingly, & only where other Keywords are inappropriate.

Agriculture: including farmers, farming methods, farm livestock & implements, grain-prices.

Architecture: including architects, builders & building projects., &/or materials.

Art: including  artists etc., & exhibitions of paintings, glass, sculpture.

Births:

Breeding:

Charity:  including pauper schemes, subscriptions, appeals for orphans etc.

Churches: including ministers of all denominations, new buildings etc.

Crime: categories  sedition, theft, burglary, murder, vandalism, assault etc. Also covers criminal prosecutions/committals/convictions, accounts of trials.

Deaths: natural, accidental, & interments/burials.

Education:  including  schools, academies, tutors, public lectures.

Employment:  including “wanted” adverts for /from servants, apprentices etc and those seeking work.

Fashion: including clothes, hats,  millinery, linenmercery, hairdressing, hair-products, jewellery, & products (cosmetics/ toiletries etc.

Finance: including  bankruptcy, taxes, calls to creditors/debtors, tax/duty matters, insurance offices & policies etc; fire offices.

Goods: covers sales for cash, credit or at auction of something concrete & including all food, drink, household & general products, produce & personal effects (sales of house contents, furniture etc; imports.

Health: including remedies,  hospitals, doctors, dentists, midwives, medicines.

Industry: including textiles, mills, factories etc

Inns: including inn/s, tavern, coaching inn,  public house.

Law:  including  attorneys/lawyers, magistrates/JPs & civil actions.

Leisure: including balls, dances, theatre, displays, fireworks,  exhibitions, museums, bell-ringing & gambling (but not concerts).

Livestock:

Marriages:

Military: including sale of commissions, militias, collections/committees for militias, local preparations for war or invasion  etc.

Music:  including concerts, recitals and opera.

News: local events (may also relate to a royal anniversary or national victory celebrations) & also items not covered  elsewhere.  Includes celebrations, accidents, exceptional weather, shipwrecks, appointments etc.

Notices: including items not allocated to a more specific keyword. Thus, occasionally, it may include local notices such as Corporation announcements, meetings, complaints, competitions, lost  & found, missing, apologies, other changes of address, changes of  tenant, landlord, societies & clubs etc.

Pets:

Politics: including local politics , & national politics (where relevant)  

Property: including  for sale, auction, to let, with details of type i.e. messuage/s, house/s, tenement/s, estate, farm etc.

Publications: including items not allocated a more specific keyword.  May include books, essays, newspapers, sermons, booksellers & libraries etc. “Nom de plume” letters to Editor.

Science:

Services:  including  tradesmen, artisans,  postal service, habit makers, plumbers, glaziers, etc.

Sport: including games such as backsword and horse racing. (Few at present).

Travel: transport -  including canals, roads, turnpikes, coaches, ships, imports, & sales & breeding of horses when specifically for travel.

Visitors:  including mainly the arrivals of titled people in Bath (e.g.  Dukes, Lords, Ladies, Sirs & ALL Hons ) also Admirals & Generals. There is not space for the others. Also including other news of visitors.

Dr Donald Straughan, 2005

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