Blackcountryman Index

A simple index, each page covers 1 volume (4 issues) of the magazine of The Black Country Society. The article and Author columns are self explanatory, as are volume and issue. The "notes" section is basically a list of keywords I have jotted down whilst I have been reading each article. This may be towns, particular trades or industries, just enough to let someone do a keyword search for articles they are interested in.

The final column "Names" was the most difficult, both in terms of time to complete, and what names to include. I have tried to avoid duplication, hence you will sometimes see multiple forenames and only one surname, if a name is mentioned in the article title (e.g. the subject of a biography) I have not duplicated. I have also excluded names that are clearly of people not born or living in the black County at the time the article is set. Also, unless they are unusual sounding surnames I have not included an initial with a surname (what use J. Smith or A. Jones?), similarly whilst there are a few surname only entries, there are not many. It has also occurred to me that very few of the entries specify time periods, this may be something I will add later (time permitting).

To search this page for a keyword in Internet Explorer go to the "edit" dropdown menu, select "find (on this page)" and type in your keyword or surname of interest. This will let you see any occasion of your word at any point in the list and allow you to search again for the next keyword.

Good luck with searches, if you find an entry you think is relevant then you need to find a copy of the magazine to read the article. I have a supply of the later magazines for sale, any magazines I cannot supply I am able to scan or photocopy for a small contribution to the society. I can accept Paypal for those payments, or cheques (drawn on UK bank) or even currency (Sterling, Euros and US dollars only)

Now that I have moved this part of my site to the Black Country Society site I hope to add more facilities. Search facility coming very soon (21/12/05), this will be from Picosearch and wil enable a search of the entire site not just this index. The instructions above will still be relevant once you have found something of interest within a volume.