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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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Watermills of Buckinghamshire, edited by Michael Farley, Edward Legg & James Venn
A 1930s account by Stanley Freese with original photographs
Aylesbury: a county town and its station 1877-1905, Bucks Paper No. 14, 2008, by Keith Bailey
An examination of the goods statistics of the Aylesbury branch of the London & North Western Railway and the characteristics of railwaymen from the censuses 1881-1901
John Wilkes: the Aylesbury years (1747-1763), Bucks Paper No.17, 2008, by Alan Dell
The Collected letters of John Wilkes to his agent, John Dell
Aylesbury: a personal memoir from the 1920s, by Professor W.R.Mead
2nd edition, privately printed by the author
The Chilterns in 1748: An Account by Pehr Kalm, Visitor from Finland, translated and edited by W.R.Mead (2nd edition, 2017)
Pehr Kalm, a native of Finland, was the favourite disciple of Karl Linnaeus. In 1748 he spent five months in England staying at Little Gaddesden to see the farming activities of the area. Whilst here he kept a diary which has been translated by the author thus giving us an invaluable account of the agriculture of the Chilterns in the mid 18th century (165 pages, illustrated).