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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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The Fives Court: The Centenary History of a House in Pinner
This book has been published, in a limited edition, to celebrate the Centenary of a house in Pinner, Middlesex, England and to bring to the notice of a wider public the skill and craftsmanship of the Arts and Crafts architects, Smith and Brewer. Their first major work was said by Pevsner to be "one of the most charming pieces of architecture of its time." It tells the story of two brilliant cous...More Info
The Cresswells of Winchmore Hill - A Gifted Victorian Family
A 271 page paperback by Peter Hodge containing 60 illustrations. Published in 1999. In this book we meet descendants of an ancient Northumberland family, some of whom lived in the Middlesex village of Winchmore Hill during the reign of Queen Victoria. The Winchmore Hill Cresswells, and their relatives in London, Kent and Devonshire, were talented, versatile and distinctive folk. Peter Hodge has tr...More Info
Minchenden School War Memorial
A 52 page A4 illustrated book by Eileen Bostle published in 2024. The Minchenden School war memorial board, which is now in the Museum of Enfield collection, was made of oak from a tree in the school grounds by pupils under the supervision of their woodwork teacher and unveiled at a Memorial and Dedication service led by the vicar of Christ Church Southgate on Sunday 2 November 1947. It shows the...More Info
Archaic Tracks Around Cambridge
Archaic Tracks Round Cambridge was published in 1932, and was the last book by Alfred Watkins, who died in 1935. Watkins is still well known today as the original writer about ‘ley lines’ through his influential topographical study, The Old Straight Track, and his other works including The Ley Hunter’s Manual. This is the first new edition of his Cambridge book, exploring topographical align...More Info
The Ley Hunter's Manual: A Guide to Early Tracks
The Ley Hunter’s Manual was written by Alfred Watkins, a Herefordshire-based antiquarian, businessman and photography pioneer, and first published in 1927 as a follow-up to his hugely successful book The Old Straight Track (also available from Heritage Hunter). Although later adopted by the New Age movement to mean lines of ‘earth energies’, Watkins’ original vision of ‘leys’ was simpl...More Info