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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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Surrey & Sussex - the Genealogists Library Guide (vol 3). Surrey & Sussex Lists of Names
Lists of names are invaluable sources of information to family historians. They help us to locate our ancestors in time and place. Many lists for Surrey and Sussex are in print, and readily available in libraries. They can be identified in this volume, which lists Domesday book, tax lists, loyalty oaths, poll book and electoral registers, the census, the return of owners of land, and trade directo...More Info
Memories of the Marsh: A Traveller Life in Kent
By the late Betsy Stanley Edited by Janet Keet-Black A5 paperback book 60 pages Black-and-white family photographs Memories of the Marsh: A Traveller Life in Kent was first published by the RTFHS in 1998 and has long been out-of-print. It's the autobiography of Betsy Stanley née Cooper, describing her life growing up in the close-knit Belvedere Marsh Gypsy community in North Kent from t...More Info
Memories of the Marsh: A Traveller Life in Kent
By the late Betsy Stanley Edited by Janet Keet-Black A5 paperback book 60 pages Black-and-white family photographs Memories of the Marsh: A Traveller Life in Kent was first published by the RTFHS in 1998 and has long been out-of-print. It's the autobiography of Betsy Stanley née Cooper, describing her life growing up in the close-knit Belvedere Marsh Gypsy community in North Kent from t...More Info
Helmsley - Reminiscences of 100 years ago
A super A5 book about Helmsley, written by Isaac Cooper a little over 100 years ago, in which he recounts not only his own memories, but some stories handed down to him and extracts from the diary of John Pape, a noted diarist of the 18th century, giving us a real insight into life in the town from the middle eighteenth up to the late nineteenth centuries. Isaac Cooper first published his b...More Info
The Great Exhibition in Colour
This hardback book brings together more than 75 colour illustrations of the Great Exhibition of 1851, produced by several contemporary Victorian artists, for the first time in one volume. The images are reproduced in full colour, making this the most complete visual account of the exhibition available. Originally published across three different volumes, the images in this book give modern read...More Info