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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As early as the seventeenth century, there were primitive wagonways serving coal pits in the Lothians. In 1831 the Edinburgh & Dalkeith (horse-drawn) railway opened, then the Lothians had their first taste of steam with the opening of the Edinburgh & Glasgow Railway in 1842. The next fifty years saw a substantial expansion of the railway network, with routes pushing out from Edinburgh to many town...More Info
The book includes illustrations and commentaries of the fishing industry at Port Seton. There are photographs of street scenes and famous local houses as well as scenes of leisure activities including Seton Sands Camping Ground opened in 1924.
Third volume of a trilogy. This book completes the FACHRS Home Front project publications. Volume 3 covers Recruitment and Volunteers, it looks at the impact of the First World War on employment in the commercial sector and industry, in agriculture, in women's role in industry and agriculture, and food and rationing. Agriculture experienced a major loss of men which impacted on food production an...More Info
This volume revives the extensive guide to Oxford first published in 1942 within Arthur Mee’s famed and popular King’s England series, here as a separate volume about the city of dreaming spires for the first time. The book has comprehensive detail about Oxford’s historic landmarks, churches and colleges, accompanied by more than 50 photos from the original Oxfordshire volume. Charming an...More Info
Learning about our ancestors’ occupations helps to give us an understanding of their daily lives. This book covers dozens of historic trades – accounting for around 90% of the Victorian population, in fact – giving succinct details about the trade, how to go about researching it, and useful resources. There is also an extended introductory essay which presents the essential methods and recor...More Info