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M. E. Monckton (Mary Evelyn Monckton) Jones
Best known for lively, source-based history books for younger readers, this early 20th-century writer turned English social history and the ancient world into accessible stories. Her work is especially remembered for making historical documents and everyday life feel readable and real.
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A Source-Book of English Social History
by M. E. Monckton (Mary Evelyn Monckton) Jones
About the author
Writing as M. E. Monckton, Mary Evelyn Monckton Jones published educational history books in the early 1900s, including Life in Old Cambridge (1920), A Source-Book of English Social History (1922), and Ancient Egypt from the Records (1924). The records available in library and catalog sources consistently connect those works with her full name.
Her books suggest a clear aim: to help students and general readers meet the past through original sources, local history, and the details of ordinary life. A Source-Book of English Social History in particular is known as a teaching-focused collection of documents spanning long stretches of British social and economic history.
Reliable biographical detail about her life appears to be scarce online, so it is safest to remember her through the books themselves: practical, readable works of history that were designed to open older worlds to newer readers.