Site history [This page shows the history of Philip Dance’s web site Modern British Surnames]. Date Section Amendments Aug 14, 2008 Variations Reaney table added March, 2008 Taxonomy Personal – updated to reflect DP’s 2008 publication Dec 26, 2007 Bibliography Added 200 refs to World Bib (France and Italy) Aug 1, 2007 Whole site Mirror site created at ModBritnames June 1, 2007 Bibliography World Bibliography added Apr-May, 2007 Whole site PC failure – no updates Jan-Feb 2007 World Transferring references to a bibliographic software database Dec 1, 2006 Taxonomy Personal and Nicknames – updated from DP’s 2006 publication May 19, 2006 Teach World Naming Systems Matrix section added Feb 08, 2006 Teach National surname signatures section added Nov 30, 2005 Taxonomy Occupational and toponymic sections updated Oct, 2005 Statistics Pre-census English county population percentages- not yet added to site Sep, 2005 Statistics Exercise – Table-how many deaths since 1540 (England)? – not yet added to site Feb 28, 2005 Teach New Immigrant surnames Dec, 2004 Home New opening page Nov 18, 2004 Writers Some revision to Academic section Oct 24, 2004 Distribution Postcode populations table Oct 17, 2004 Distribution Elementary spatial analysis techniques Oct 10, 2004 Distribution Mean separation distance formula Oct 3, 2004 Variance Pronunciation – new para on lay subsidy distributions w-,wh-,qu Oct 3, 2004 Surname survival Surname modelling – new paragraph added Oct 3, 2004 Taxonomy Further work Aug 20, 2004 Start New introduction Aug 18, 2004 Teach Oram quote added Jul 5-13, 2004 All Hard Disk failure- some research files lost June 6, 2004 Taxonomy Subject structure scheme – commenced April 30, 2004 Distribution International datasets table ; NHSCR link April 29, 2004 Distribution Table of Registered Electorate April 29, 2004 Nhscr Further reading added April 17, 2004 Writers Cultural subsection – new para + High Peak quotation added Mar 8, 2004 Given Donald’s article on female names Feb 23, 2004 Variance Modern Spellings – section added Jan 9, 2004 Teach Surname length + initial letter tables Jan 5, 2004 Bibliography Topic bibliography – Linguistics and surnames added Jan 2, 2004 Variance Consonant confusion link Dec 27, 2003 Writers Onomastic fields/dialects + Royd distribution map Dec 27, 2003 Teach Leading names frequency bar-chart/ Frequency graphs Dec 27, 2003 Variance Black Death map Dec 20, 2003 Teach Distribution maps of leading names Dec 17, 2003 Start Cosmetic changes to boxes Dec 15, 2003 Teach Syllable pie-charts introduced Dec 15, 2003 Variance Appendix 2 (on syllables and names) – incomplete– added Nov 16, 2003 Bibliography New sectional bibliography on given names Aug 15, 2003 Given New research article by Donald Hatch Aug 1, 2003 Teach Expanded to include fuller section on teaching Given names July 31, 2003 Societies Amended to include ICOS June 8, 2003 Given Commenced section on statistics and gven names Apr 6, 2003 Teach Added -Feminism and surnames section Feb 22, 2003 Teach Year-list analysis added Jan 11, 2003 First Visit A new section providing an introduction to the site Jan 10, 2003 Mapping Info and links updated on available software Nov 3, 2002 History Commenced writing section on cultural/bioanthropology Nov 1, 2002 Nhscrweb Potted history of the NHS Central Register’s database of names Oct 30, 2002 Bibliography Reformatted and enlarged Oct 30, 2002 Distribution Error in table corrected/New maps added June 17, 2002 Teach New section of ideas for introducing world naming systems to those aged 13-18 April 14, 2002 Mapping Current software/online table added April 14, 2002 Mapping Map of Registration Districts 1837-1851 re-stored March 30, 2002 Variations Extra material added December, 2001 Big New section on surname survival Nov 21, 1999 Uploaded Site created