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York, 1868 Poll Book Special Offer
A record of votes given to candidates for the representation of the city of York. Contains names and addresses of voters and shows who they voted for. * Digitally enhanced images of the original text * Searchable by whole name or part name * Bookmarked by major headings * Fully printable... More Info
Sussex Records 1438-1603 Special Offer
This CD contains Miscellaneous Records for Sussex that include Episcopal Registers 1438-1445, 1705 Poll for the Knights of the Shire, and Ecclesiastical returns for 1603. *Digitally enhanced images of the original text *Searchable text *Bookmarked by major headings *Fully printable... More Info
Warwickshire, The Records of Knowle, 1682-1812
As well as over 200 pages of registers, this CD includes records of the Churchwardens (1673-1707 and extracts to 1842), Overseers and their Accounts (extracts 1705-1836), Indentures (1675-1838), Vestry Book (1837-1885), and Constables (1818-1839). There is an article on the founder of the Church and Guild, Walter Cook, while further chapters cover a Record of a Manor Court at Knowle in 1278, a Certificate of Consecration of the Church, two medieval wills, a 1616 inventory, a roll of Knowle inhab More Info
Product Code: GRD5945
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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Sand, Planes and Submarines, How Leighton Buzzard shortened the First World War
The role of a town far from the sea played in the WWI effort by building planes, making submarines nets and most of all providing sand for the nation's foundries. Plus life in the town and comprehensive lists and details of those who fought and died. Without the sand the big guns could not have been made for the front; planes allowed the Royal Flying Corps to take on the super German airforce and ...More Info
Change and continuity east of Tudor Bristol
Kathleen Hapgood 978 1 911592 22 8 Barton Hill, Bromley Heath, Downend, Eastville, Easton, Fishponds, Greenbank, Hillfields, Kingswood, Mangotsfield, Redfield, St George, Speedwell, Soundwell, Stapleton and Whitehall: all today thriving districts of Bristol. But all that area east of old Bristol Castle was countryside in the sixteenth century. Kathleen Hapgood (author of ALHA N...More Info
Village in Transition: Abbots Leigh 1911 - 1921, by Murray Stewart
978 1 911592 20 4 Between 1911 and 1921, Abbots Leigh experienced both the Great War and the sale of the entire village and its surroundings which had belonged to the Miles family for a hundred years. Just another hundred years after that sale, Village in Transition tells in detail what happened and how the population and ownership of the area was changed. Includes an A3 map of the...More Info
Chemistry in Bristol into the Early Twentieth Century
Brian Vincent and Raymond Holland 978 1 911592 18 1 Chemistry only emerged as a science in the later 18th century. Since then, it has transformed our understanding of the natural world, our medical care, and our products and processes. The knowledge and experience of the two authors well qualifies them to tell us how this story played out in Bristol over some 150 years. Brian Vincen...More Info
St James’s Fair, Bristol, 1137 - 1837
Joseph Bettey 978 1 911592 16 7 St James’s Fair was the first and for seven hundred years the most famous of Bristol’s fairs. At its height, it drew traders from all over England, and the rich cargoes destined for it were a magnet for pirates. Even at the end it still prospered, albeit more for pleasure than business; and it was the dubious moral character of those pleasures rather th...More Info