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Acknowledgments

I would like to thank the following people for sending me their ancestors’ papers: John Knight, Derrick Mayhew, and Iris Diggle; as well as John Hailey, Bill Torrens, and Beata Duncan for their help.

I have been greatly aided over the years by my assistants, who have done everything from photocopying archives to picking up the children from school: Heather Nedwell, Jay Knowlton, Lorena Crackett, Christina Galbraith, Elizabeth Uzelac, and Olivia Taylor. I also thank all those at Penguin and Random House who have worked on the book.

The following people and libraries provided invaluable material: Library of Congress; U.S. National Archives; U.K. National Archives; Massachusetts Historical Society; South Carolina Historical Society; Museum of the Confederacy; British Library; British Newspaper Library; Royal Museum of Central Africa; Ms. Sam Collenette—Bolton Archives and Local Studies; Roger Bettridge, Linda Haynes, and Bill Torrens—Buckinghamshire Record Office; Kate Fellows and Rachel MacGregor—Birmingham City Archives; John Hopkins and Esther Williams—Cheshire Record Office; Sam Johnston and David Thomas—Cornwall Record Office; Susan Worrall—Coventry Archives; Rachel M. Rowe—Smuts Librarian in South Asian and Commonwealth Studies, University of Cambridge; Diana Chardin—Trinity College Library, Cambridge University; Martin Beckett—State Library of New South Wales; David M. Bowcock—Cumbria Record Office; John Brunton, Susan Laithwaite, Janice Wood, and Tim Wormleighton—Devon Record Office; Jennifer Gill—Durham Record Office; Jane Hogan and Elizabeth Rainey—Archives and Special Collections, Durham University Library; Hugh Jaques and Deborah Stevenson—Dorset Record Office; Sarah Chubb—Dundee University Archives; Ian Flett—Dundee City Archives; Michael Read—Welsh College of Music and Drama; Marion M. Stewart—Dumfries and Galloway Archives; Robert Craigie; Philip Bye—East Sussex Records Office; Dr. Annette Hagan and Hazel Robertson—Special Collections, Edinburgh University Library; Elizabeth Pettitt—Flintshire Records Office; Karan Robson—Southampton University Library; Mr. P. R. Evans—Gloucestershire County Record Office; Pauline Kane—Glasgow Public Library; Lynne Dent, Niki Pollock, and Moira Rankin—Special Collections, Glasgow University Library; Elizabeth Ball—Glasgow University Archive; Steffan ab Owain and J. Dilwyn Williams—Caernarfon Record Office; Martin Taylor—Hull City Archives; Elizabeth Kirwan—Department of Manuscripts, National Library of Ireland; Helen Burton—Special Collections and Archives, Keele University; Bruce Jackson and Neil Sayer—Lancashire Record Office; Dr. Margaret Bonney—Leicestershire Record Office; Adrian Wilkinson—Lincolnshire Archives; Ruth Hobbins, Roger Hull, and Liz Williams—Liverpool Record Office; Stephen Freeth and James R. Sewell—Guildhall Library, Corporation of London; Susan Stead—Special Collections, University College London; Malcolm C. Davis, Paul Howell, and Gillian Moran—Special Collections, Leeds University Library; Gwen McGinty and Dr. Maureen M. Watry—Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool; Dr. John Nicholls—London City Mission; Robert Gerrelli; Stephen M. Dixon—Medway Archives and Local Studies Center; Dawn Littler—Merseyside Maritime Museum; John Hodgson and Peter McNiven—John Rylands University Library; Edith Philip—National War Museum of Scotland; Alastair Carroll, Anne Craig, and Michelle Kelly—Public Record Office of Northern Ireland; Helen Sellars—Florence Nightingale Museum Trust; Richard Aspin, Douglas Knock, Nyree Morrison, and Helen Wakely—Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine; Helen Arkwright and Lesley Gordon—Special Collections, Robinson Library, University of Newcastle; Caroline Kelly and Elizabeth Tebbutt—Department of Manuscripts and Special Collections, Hallward Library, University of Nottingham; Jill Davies, Duncan Hartwig, and Kiri Ross-Jones—Manuscripts Department, National Maritime Museum; Tim Hughes; Mrs. S. Wood—Northumberland Record Office;