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KINDRED BRITAIN

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‘Only connect...’ — E. M. Forster

‘Family connexions are part of the poetry of history’ — Noel Annan

ESSAYS

Originating Kindred Britain by Nicholas Jenkins

Developing Kindred Britain by Elijah Meeks and Karl Grossner

Designing Kindred Britain by Scott Murray

Kindred Britain: Statistics by Elijah Meeks

GENERAL INFORMATION

User's Guide by Hannah Abalos and Nicholas Jenkins

FAQs

Glossary by Hannah Abalos and Emma Townley-Smith

Acknowledgements

Terms of Use

If you notice a problem with the site or have a question or copyright concern, please contact us at kindredbritain@stanford.edu

Kindred Britain © 2013 Nicholas Jenkins All rights reserved

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A selection of some of the subjects - famous families, numinous siblings and historic individuals - in Kindred Britain.
  1. Most viewed
  2. William Shakespeare
  3. George Washington
  4. Virginia Woolf
  5. Charles Darwin
  1. Professions
  2. Prime Ministers
  3. Novelists
  4. Poets
  5. Actors/Actresses
  6. Explorers and Mountaineers
  7. Musicians and Singers
  8. Painters
  9. Naval Officers
  1. Families
  2. Burney
  3. Austen
  4. Darwin
  5. Dickens
  6. Wilde
  7. Wittgenstein
  8. Auden
  1. Sisters
  2. Waldegrave
  3. Lennox
  4. Sheridan
  5. Pattle
  6. Macdonald
  7. Potter
  8. Stephen
  9. Gore-Booth
  10. Guinness
  1. First and last
  2. Last Plantagenet monarch and last English king to die in battle: 1485, Richard III
  3. Last peer to be executed: 1760, Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers
  4. 1st President of the United States: 1789, George Washington
  5. 1st woman to write a libretto for an opera: 1794, Ann Hatton
  6. 1st Quaker to take a seat in Parliament: 1832, Joseph Pease
  7. 1st Jew to take a seat in Parliament: 1858, Lionel Nathan Rothschild
  8. 1st MP to be suspended for swearing in Parliament: 1877, R. B. Cunninghame Graham
  9. 1st Jew to be created a British peer: 1885, Nathan Mayer Rothschild
  10. 1st woman to be elected to Parliament: 1918, Constance Markievicz
  11. 1st woman to take a seat in Parliament: 1919, Nancy Astor
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Read short essays about historical narratives revealed by Kindred Britain and technical issues the site engages with.
  1. HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL
  2. Frankenstein
  3. Erasmus Darwin: Europe's First Botanist
  4. Rival Relations: Washington and Cornwallis
  1. CONCEPTUAL
  2. Centrality and Notability in Genealogy
  3. Computing Tragedy
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A selection of juxtapositions, underwritten by family ties and uniting people divided by different fates or roles, in Kindred Britain.
  1. Opponents
  2. Thomas Cromwell and Thomas More
  3. Charles I and Oliver Cromwell
  4. George Washington and George III
  5. Napoleon and the Duke of Wellington
  6. Benjamin Disraeli and W. E. Gladstone
  7. Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee
  8. John Ruskin and J. A. M. Whistler
  9. Spencer William Gore and William Marshall (opponents in first Gentlemen’s Singles Final at Wimbledon, 1877)
  10. Jacob Epstein and Hamo Thornycroft
  1. Judge and Accused
  2. Valentine Dale and Mary Queen of Scots
  3. George Jeffreys and Algernon Sidney
  4. George Jeffreys and Charles Speke
  5. George Jeffreys and William, Lord Russell
  1. Author and Subject
  2. William Shakespeare and John of Gaunt
  3. Alfred Tennyson and the Earl of Cardigan
  1. Sitter and artist
  2. Queen Henrietta Maria, by Anthony Van Dyck
  3. Sir Brooke Boothby, by Joseph Wright of Derby
  4. Penelope Boothby, by Joshua Reynolds
  5. Margaret Kemble Gage, by J. S. Copley
  6. Henry Jackson, by Charles Wellington Furse
  7. Marianne North, by Julia Margaret Cameron
  8. Robert Braithwaite Martineau, by W. Holman Hunt
  9. Virginia Woolf, by George Charles Beresford
  10. George Curzon, by Hamo Thornycroft
  1. Doctor and patient
  2. Mary Countess of Pembroke and Matthew Lister
  3. Napoleon and Barry O’Meara
  4. Jane Austen and Giles Lyford
  1. Graves: buried side-by-side or in same ground
  2. Geoffrey Chaucer and John Dryden
  3. Lord Nelson and Duke of Wellington
  4. George Orwell and David Astor
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