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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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FORTY YEARS IN A MOORLAND PARISH
Reminiscences and Researches in Danby in Cleveland. Written in 1891 by Rev. J.C. Atkinson, D.C.L., Incumbent of the Parish of Danby and Hon. Canon of York Minster. Includes maps of the area. The book on this CD is machine searchable
EASINGWOLD: HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES - Vallis Eboracensis
Vallis Eboracensis (The Vale of York). The History and Antiquities of Easingwold, by Thomas Gill. First published 1852. A topographic view of Easingwold and neighbourhood. An area rich in monuments of antiquity, abbeys, priories, castles and encampments; the author has included a brief history of each place in this part of the Vale of York, formerly known as the Forest of Galtres. Includes Crayke,...More Info
THE PRIORY AND PECULIAR OF SNAITH
Snaith was a peculiar; that is, it had an Ecclesiastical Court of its own, exempt in many matters from the jurisdiction of the Bishop of the Diocese. The Court had jurisdiction over the townships of Snaith, Balne, Cowick, Gowdall, Heck, Hensall, Pollington, Carlton, Armin, Hook, Rawcliffe, Goole, Swinefleet, Reedness, Whitgift and Ousefleet. The Priory Church dated from the 11th century, but there...More Info
WHITBY AND ITS SHIPPING
A delightful book, featuring many histories of the ancient town and the ships, their owners, their voyages and their crews
SCALBY, BURNISTON & CLOUGHTON 1829
A History of the villages of Scalby, Burniston and Cloughton, including descriptions of Newby, Hayburn Wyke and Stainton Dale. This book includes some monumental inscriptions and testamentary burials, transcriptions of letters and a Deed of Sale of some land at Cloughton.