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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
Product Code: DYAP018
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800 Years of Barnet Market
Barnet Market received its Royal Charter in 1199. In this book Jennie Lee Cobban and Doreen Willcocks explore 800 years of the Market's colourful history.
The Chipping Barnet War Memorial World War Two
Following on from our 2015 publication about the men on the Chipping Barnet War Memorial who died in World War One, we have now researched the 149 men and women from World War Two. This book tells their stories inside a timeline of World War Two and alongside articles about their, and Barnet’s, part in the War.
The Battle of Barnet in Fact and Fiction
This very recent publication, in full colour, marks not only the 550th anniversary of the battle , but it also examines the role of the key players in the battle together with depictions and interpretations of their personalities, roles and motivations from a wide variety of historical and literary sources . This book will be much appreciated by adults and children alike. 78 pages in A4 format....More Info
A Hundred Years of the Chipping Barnet War Memorial 1921- 2021
Barnet Museum has recently published a book to mark the 100th anniversary which records the full history of the memorial. It charts it time from initial conception in 1919 through to construction, its relocation in 1938-39 into the new Garden of Remembrance, and details how the memorial has formed a focus for the town’s Armistice and Remembrance Day since the unveiling on 3rd April 1921 across t...More Info
Chipping Barnet's Military History
This book covers the period 1850 to the present day, reviewing the forces of the Militia based for 50 years at Barnet Barracks, the Rifle Volunteers and the Territorial Forces. The timeline details events from 1661 to 2019. There are maps, photographs and biographies of notable characters. 76 pages A4 format