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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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The Surgeons and the Bristol School of Artists, by Michael Whitfield
978 1 911592 28 0 The cover pictures show portraits of John King as Surgeon with a skull, and as artist with sketch pad and brush. For he, like several other surgeons, was also a prolific artist, one of what has been called the Bristol School as it flourished in the period 1800 – 1840. Here Michael Whitfield (author of many other ALHA booklets) tells their story. This book is sho...More Info
The Butlers & the coal-tar distillery at Crew's Hole
Brian Vincent & Raymond Holland 978 1 911592 29 7 The Crew’s Hole coal-tar distillery was set up by Brunel in 1843 with young William Butler as manager. It became a family firm and remained so to 1970, while the Butlers became an important Bristol family. Here is their story. Brian Vincent, PhD, Dsc, FRSC is emeritus professor and senior research fellow in chemistry at the University...More Info
Fair Enough - Pinner Fair: The Last 200 Years
The annual street fair at Pinner in Middlesex was founded in 1336 and has been held ever since. At frequent intervals over the past two hundred years, people have been trying to suppress it for a variety of reasons. This book looks at the changing style of entertainments provided at the Fair, and examines the ways in which it has survived for over 650 years, when many neighbouring fairs and more ...More Info
St Edmund The King: A Pinner Parish Church
As a Pinner Parish Church, St Edmund The King (built in 1964) serves about 3000 dwellings mostly north of the Uxbridge Road. This book describes the second church on the site; its contents and the artists who created them; and the stories associated with all the major contents.
Ten Walks Around Pinner: Including Ruislip, Northwood, Eastcote, Rayners Lane, North Harrow, Hatch End, Harrow Weald
Ten Walks Around Pinner: Including Ruislip, Northwood, Eastcote, Rayners Lane, North Harrow, Hatch End, Harrow Weald. The intention of the book is to highlight some of the prettiest and lesser known areas of Pinner, Ruislip, Northwood, Eastcote and Rayners Lane as well as Hatch End, North Harrow and Harrow Weald. These walks have the benefit of being used by the reader as they wish. The histor...More Info