SUMMARY

This book connects you to your family and local history by engaging your senses.
This new way of exploring the history of your family or your local area allows you to see things through the eyes of a family ancestor or a local forebear. To listen to what reached their ears. To breathe in similar scents. To touch what surrounded them. And to taste as their taste buds once did...

To do this, the reader is invited to identify the most telling sensory clues based on their own family history. A series of practical guidelines then enables them to immerse themselves in their own history. Two fully customisable experiences are also offered, one for each of the five senses.

In order to gain an understanding of what has helped shape us in this way, the author has developed a genuine «augmented sensory genealogy». As for the transmission of a family or local history through the practice of ‘living history’, it now benefits from an additional guarantee of authenticity.

AUTHOR

Vincent Vagman is a historian and heads the Projet-Histoire agency (https://projet-histoire.com).