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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 18 (October 2014)
Issue 18 features: * Housekeeping through history: Margaret Powling shows how housekeeping books can illuminate social history * Celebration of place: A new one-place studies conference * Wounded in WW1: Explore 1.3m casualty records online * Sea changes: Karen Foy on the many ways we can learn about our migrant ancestors * A walk in the park: The development of public parks * The slippery poll: 18th and 19th century poll books revealed * History in the details: Cloaks and mantles * Places in Focus: Norwich More Info
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Liphook, Bramshott and the Canadians
The story of Canadian troops in Liphook and Bramshott during two World Wars - photos, maps, information - published by the Bramshott & Liphook Preservation Society. *Laurence Giles* \[See also JOS-00-1; JOS-57-5; JOS-GGG\] Supplied by John Owen Smith
A Balance of Trust
The railway arrives in a Surrey village, and nothing is the same again - is Hindhead Common safe? We meet the founder of The National Trust, and cover 50 years of history in and around Haslemere and Hindhead, Surrey from the arrival of the railway to the arrival of the motor car - photos, maps, biographies. *John Owen Smith* \[See also JOS-29-X; JOS-31-1; JOS-61-4\] Supplied by John Owen Smith
The Hilltop Writers - a Victorian Colony among the Surrey Hills
Here we meet Tennyson, Conan Doyle, Bernard Shaw and the many other writers who populated the hilltops around Haslemere and Hindhead at the end of the 1890s. *W R (Bob) Trotter* \[See also JOS-12-5; JOS-29-X; JOS-38-9; JOS-39-7; JOS-47-8; JOS-50-8\] Supplied by John Owen Smith
Literary Surrey
A lively exploration of the time spent and work written in Surrey by authors from John Evelyn and Fanny Burney to H.G. Wells and E.M. Forster. Special chapters on Country Writers, Box Hill and the River Mole, Children's Writers (up to Jacqueline Wilson) and "The Quill and the Sword" (Surrey writers in times of war). Contains suggestions for further reading and details about places to visit . Illus...More Info
Shottermill - Part 1 - early times to the 1700s
The history of Shottermill near Haslemere; its Farms, Families and Mills from early times to the 1700s. *Greta A Turner* \[See also JOS-31-1; JOS-40-0; JOS-47-8\] Supplied by John Owen Smith