June 8th - 10:06amsamsonmacgowan@yahoo.com said...
he is my cousin i am from thornhill club ALALHABAD INDIA
July 22nd - 10:56pmGerard, Mayo said...
Just watched this tonight and thought that it was one of the best in the series. A real history lesson, on the suffering and sacrifice of the Irish people.
July 29th - 11:11pmAlison Horsley Meredith said...
Personal message for Kate Humble: Do you know why your great-grandfather was named William Horsley Humble? My great great-grandfather was William Kyle Horsley, the engineer at Hartley Colliery when the beam engine was installed in the early 1850s. However he left before the disaster to start his own foundry on the Tyne. Do you know of a connection between the two families?
August 5th - 10:39pmmoira fleming said...
I was most interested in this programme up to the point when the programme makers allowed David Mitchell to make totally inaccurate and misinformed responses to the evidence from the Kirk Session Minutes. After all the careful scholarship that he had encountered earlier in the programme he was allowed to make silly assumptions abut the evidence from the minutes and indeed to jump to wild conclusions about John Forbes' will without stopping to consider the real story that was being emerging or the man involved. Nobody sought to put this in historical context and his response was patronising and puerile. What was intended by the producers of the programme? A bit of sensationalism to end an otherwise fascinating production? A historian at this point might just have helped improve the whole effect. I do hope the ldy with the Kirk session minutes and other materials she had unearthed was considering lodging them with the National Archives of Scotland where they rightly belong.
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he is my cousin i am from thornhill club ALALHABAD INDIA
Just watched this tonight and thought that it was one of the best in the series. A real history lesson, on the suffering and sacrifice of the Irish people.
Personal message for Kate Humble: Do you know why your great-grandfather was named William Horsley Humble? My great great-grandfather was William Kyle Horsley, the engineer at Hartley Colliery when the beam engine was installed in the early 1850s. However he left before the disaster to start his own foundry on the Tyne. Do you know of a connection between the two families?
I was most interested in this programme up to the point when the programme makers allowed David Mitchell to make totally inaccurate and misinformed responses to the evidence from the Kirk Session Minutes. After all the careful scholarship that he had encountered earlier in the programme he was allowed to make silly assumptions abut the evidence from the minutes and indeed to jump to wild conclusions about John Forbes' will without stopping to consider the real story that was being emerging or the man involved. Nobody sought to put this in historical context and his response was patronising and puerile. What was intended by the producers of the programme? A bit of sensationalism to end an otherwise fascinating production? A historian at this point might just have helped improve the whole effect. I do hope the ldy with the Kirk session minutes and other materials she had unearthed was considering lodging them with the National Archives of Scotland where they rightly belong.