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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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1875 WHITE'S DIRECTORY OF WOOLLEN & WORSTED MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS OF THE WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE
Leeds, Bradford, Huddersfield, Halifax, Wakefield, Dewsbury, Batley, Pontefract, Keighley, Bingley, Saddleworth, Todmorden, Skipton, Otley, Holmfirth and the parishes and villages in and near to these Woollen and Worsted manufacturing districts of the West Riding of Yorkshire. An amazing number of names, addresses and historical information in this book of almost 1,600 pages. Useful for locating p...More Info
COSTUME OF YORKSHIRE - 1814
A book of splendid illustrations of the working men and women of Yorkshire in 1813 - 1814. The Author and Artist, George Walker, describes in his introduction - "most of the humble individuals here depicted in their simple and sometimes squalid garb" Many of the 41 hand-coloured aquatint engravings have become very famous in recent times, held to be accurate representations of the working people o...More Info
PONTEFRACT: A History of the Ancient Borough
The History of the Ancient Borough of Pontefract. Containing an interesting account of its castle and the three different sieges it sustained during the Civil War, with notes and Pedigrees of some of the most distinguished Royalists and Parliamentarians. First published 1807.The book on this CD is machine searchable. The book on this CD is machine searchable.
THE OLD INNS & INN SIGNS OF YORK
Illustrated by the author, T.P. Cooper, and written in 1897. A super book, and a must for anyone interested in the ancient City of York. The book on this CD is machine searchable.
HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF BRIDLINGTON, by J. Thompson, 1821
Fascinating and factual. First published in 1821, this beautiful leather-bound book ‘illustrates the peculiarities of the ancient town of Bridlington.’ The book on this CD is machine searchable.