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
Product Code: DYAP018
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First published in 1927 this book looks at the lives of thirty different “Worthies” of Somerset . Not only does it include the obvious people such as St. Dunstan, Robert Blake and Roger Bacon but also some lesser known persons such as John Pym, the revolutionary, Elizabeth Rowe, the poet and Edwin Norris the Linguist. Thirty distinguished and interesting biographies. This book really is a...More Info
The woollen trade has always been important in England and has played a great part in the economy of the West Country particularly in the area around the Somerset and Devon borders where there were a number of Mills from which a lot of this cloth was exported. The English Civil War was damaging to the whole economy and in particular the textile trade, so much so that during the reign of Charles ...More Info
This book was originally published for private circulation in 1897 and whilst diaries were very popular around this time, this is more of an autobiography which gives a well described picture of the life of a clergyman from the middle to end of the nineteenth century in Devon and on the border of Somerset. Whilst, as expected, he was well acquainted with local members of the gentry, we also have a...More Info
A book by Alfred P. Wilson first published in 1910 and digitised by the Ryedale Family History Group in 2017 Alfred Percy Wilson died at the Voluntary Aid Detachment hospital in Hornsea on 2nd December 1918, aged 34, from a combination of Influenza and Pneumonia. He is buried in the cemetery of St. Nicholas Church, Bransdale. He is remembered on the Farndale War Memorial, as well a...More Info
A book by Alfred P. Wilson first published in 1910 and digitised by the Ryedale Family History Group in 2017 Alfred Percy Wilson died at the Voluntary Aid Detachment hospital in Hornsea on 2nd December 1918, aged 34, from a combination of Influenza and Pneumonia. He is buried in the cemetery of St. Nicholas Church, Bransdale. He is remembered on the Farndale War Memorial, as well a...More Info