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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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News From Victorian Newhaven by Stanley Bernard. Publisher Paths Publishing
Although Newhaven is a quiet town today, in the mid-to-late nineteenth century it was to home the some crimes that made national news. From runaway wives to fraud to brutal murders, Victorian Newhaven had it all.
Altrincham History Society Occasional Paper 34, Asquith's War: Altrincham August 1914-May1915
by Colin Graham. This occasional paper looks at the beginning of the First World War through Altrincham's local newspaper, the Altrincham Guardian and analyses the reactions of local people. There is not only the reaction from the Home Front (the fundraising, the enlisting, the arrival of Belgian refugees), but also the letters from local soldiers printed in the newspaper, and later on the obituar...More Info
Warburton: Glimpses of Rural Life
The Archaeology and History of a Cheshire Village edited by Michael Nevel with Marjorie Carney, Jenny Cracknell, Jim Haworth, Chris Hill and Denise Jubb. Published by the University of Salford Press
The Changing Landscape of Bowdon, Cheshire by Don Bayliss and David Miller
A study of Bowdon through land use, its unusual multiple openfield system and the importance of the church in the area's history and development
Altrincham History Society Occasional Paper 45: The Accidental Earl: William Grey, 9th Earl of Stamford by David Eastwood
How the son of a clergyman became the Earl of Stamford in 1890; the hoops he had to go through to claim the title; his relationships with the widow of the 7th Earl, his uncle the 8th Earl and his South African cousins; his community work; the renovation of Dunham Massey Hall, near Altrincham, Cheshire