 |
| Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage |
This is not a surprise. Publishing a 3000 page tome is expensive as is the research, which would include sending forms to families, hoping for a response and monitoring the hatch, match and dispatch columns in The Times & The Telegraph.
In the 1980s through the late 1990s, I edited Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage's section on the living descendants of Queen Victoria.
The 150th (and final print) edition was published early this year. The first Debrett's was published in 1769 by John Debrett.
https://www.debretts.com/product/debretts-peerage/
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/07/28/death-blue-bloods-red-book-debretts-moves-online/?fbclid=IwAR3F5XkRZrXLsLR9EAd37OppsKNQr2OlhQmFeQ4aEpaSer0deB5xJ6H1mrU
I am dying in laughter after reading your phrase “hatch, match and dispatch columns“!
ReplyDeleteHow much is it to access it online?
ReplyDeleteDebretts has only announced that they will go online, but no plans on when it will happen
ReplyDeleteDebretts end will come then.. Burkes Peerage if they persist with updates and showing the data like their publications will be far better off for readers then what Debretts can offer..
ReplyDeleteSadly Debretts will realise that and perhaps publish every ten years instead... to compete with a dying market.