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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 Home Front 1914-1915 Collection
This contains all 3 volumes of FACHRS major project - The Home Front 1914-1915 and is offered at the special price
Buckinghamshire (The King's England)
There have been many books on Buckinghamshire, but never one like this… The perfect historic guide to Buckinghamshire churches, castles and other historic places. “Buckinghamshire has a famous roll of honour; no small county has contributed more to England’s fame…” – Arthur Mee Arthur Mee’s guide to 206 places in the historic county of Buckinghamshire, from Addington to Wray...More Info
Cheshire (The King's England)
There have been many books on Cheshire, but never one like this… The perfect historic guide to Cheshire churches, castles and other historic places. Arthur Mee’s guide to 150 places in Cheshire, from Acton to Wybunbury, provides both a snapshot of the county before the Second World War and a comprehensive guidebook to the county’s heritage which remains invaluable for travellers and hi...More Info
Kilvert's Diary
“The Diary, which paints a unique picture of country life in mid-Victorian times, has come to be recognised as a minor classic; its author has been compared to Dorothy Wordsworth, whom he admired, and even Pepys.” – William Plomer “The best picture of quiet vicarage life in Victorian England that has yet been given us.” – John Betjeman The diaries of Robert Francis Kilvert (1840-...More Info
Mudlarking: A Historical Sourcebook
Mudlarking – scavenging for items of value in the shores of a river – has been documented along the Thames and elsewhere for more than two centuries, and continues to this day as a pastime. This volume brings together for the first time a wide variety of 19th century sources about the mudlarks of history and the hardships they faced.