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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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St John the Baptist Church, Chipping Barnet
This well-illustrated, colourful book covers the history of the church from medieval times onwards, the benefactors, the choir , the bells… A4 format 26 pages
Mary Bassett School Log 1863-1887
This is a complete transcription of the earliest school log book giving a fascinating insight into the day to day life of a Victorian School at the heart of Leighton Buzzard. Many listings of pupils and teachers.
From Catholic Devotion to Puritan Piety; Responses to the Reformation in the Avon Area 1530 - 1603
Joseph Bettey 978 1 911592 11 2 In 1530, England was an orthodox Catholic country whose King had been proclaimed Defender of the Faith by the Pope. By 1603, it was a fiercely Protestant country, where Catholics were forbidden to worship and the Queen was subject to a papal fatwa. In this book, Dr Bettey traces the various responses of the people in the Avon region as they withstood or ran...More Info
The Blue Maids Orphanage
Mary Wright 978 1 911592 02 0 The Blue Maids Orphanage opened in 1795, a generation before Muller’s Orphanage. But it lay at the bottom of Ashley Hill with Muller’s at the top, and has been rather overshadowed by the larger and richer institution. Yet there is a tale to tell even in its relative lack of funds and the struggles of the directing committee to keep it going until eventual...More Info
The Medieval Friaries, Hospitals & Chapelries of Bristol, by Joseph Bettey
978 1 911592 01 3 In addition to three monastic houses and eighteen parish churches, four friaries and many hospitals, almshouses and chapels were crowded in and around Bristol in the later Middle Ages. This book relates how these institutions were founded, built and supported by pious benefactors; how they provided help and relief to the sick, the old, the destitute and the outcasts of soc...More Info