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Issue 22 features: * The sweet smell of history: Jayne Shrimpton sniffs out the interesting social history of perfume * A rogue in the records: Gill Hoffs on a convict who made his fortune in the goldfields of Australia, only to lose it again * The Mulberry madam: Another convict transportation story * Found in the muniments room: Melvyn Jones highlights more treasures in the archives of our great landed estates * All good sports: Keith Gregson explores what can be learned about amateur sporting ancestors in online records * Plying the waters: Waterborne trade in Somerset explored * Calling your ancestors: Jill Morris looks at old phone books * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on raincoats More Info
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* A brief history of dieting: At a time of year when many people look to their New Year's resolutions, Jayne Shrimpton reveals that dieting is certainly no new endeavour * If the invader comes...: Stuart A. Raymond looks at the WW2 Invasion Committees and the useful records they have left * The greats of greetings cards: Nick Thorne explores the records of the Jewish family responsible for many of our ancestors' greeting cards * How justice failed Beatrice and Emily: The unsolved murders of two little girls in 1890s Gloucestershire show the problems with convicting those identified as the likely offender. By Nell Darby * Crime by numbers: Kate Hollis investigates criminal record keeping in Victorian Kent * History in the details: Materials - leather (part 4) More Info
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* People's parks: Denise Bates explores the history of public parks and the social purpose they have served * Bigamy at Bristol: When a man committed bigamy, one might expect people to condemn him. So how, in 1859, did one man actually get sympathy for doing so? Nell Darby knows * A ride through time: Nick Thorne demonstrates how combining online resources can help with researching ancestors' occupations * The saddest goodbye: Simon Wills looks at why and how our ancestors attempted suicide and the repercussions for them and their families * Letters to the editor: Paul Matthews offers a sampler of correspondence to periodicals, revealing little windows into the past * History in the details: Materials - cotton (part 2) More Info
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Kathleen Hapgood 978 1 911592 22 8 Barton Hill, Bromley Heath, Downend, Eastville, Easton, Fishponds, Greenbank, Hillfields, Kingswood, Mangotsfield, Redfield, St George, Speedwell, Soundwell, Stapleton and Whitehall: all today thriving districts of Bristol. But all that area east of old Bristol Castle was countryside in the sixteenth century. Kathleen Hapgood (author of ALHA N...More Info
Mick Aston 978 1 911592 12 9 In Shapwick & Winscombe, the late Mick Aston tells about work on two Somerset parishes: Shapwick, on which he was engaged for ten years; and Winscombe. Shapwick was historically a classic example of a closed settlement, dominated by one or two landlords; Winscombe of the open kind, enjoying relative freedom. But despite these contrasts, there were great simila...More Info
978 1 911592 08 2 The original Morning Star of the Reformation was John Wycliffe, whose teaching prefigured much that would become mainstream Protestantism a century later, especially the direct relation of Christian to God through the words of the Bible and not through priests. Despite repression, his followers, known as Lollards, remained active in the South West until overtaken or subsum...More Info
Richard Coates 978 1 911592 24 2 Henry John Wilkins was a progressive force in local politics before entering the great tradition of English parsons who have been active local historians. The fact that he was particularly a historian of Westbury-on-Trym makes it appropriate that this memoir and detailed bibliography should appear in the year that this parish celebrates its first thirteen ...More Info
booklet no.19 in ALHA books series