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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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Historic Oxford (The King's England)
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
How to Research Historic Occupations
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
Oxford: Encounters through History
Oxford has been a magnet for tourists and historians alike for centuries, and many of them have left vivid, interesting and sometimes amusing accounts of their discoveries about the city and their encounters with its inhabitants. This book brings together a wealth of these travellers’ tales for the first time, gleaned from almost five centuries of diaries, journals, field notes and travel guides...More Info
The Old Straight Track: Its Mounds, Beacons, Moats, Sites and Mark Stones
The Old Straight Track was written by Alfred Watkins, a Herefordshire-based antiquarian, businessman and photography pioneer, and first published in 1925. It is the book which introduced the concept of ‘ley lines’. Although later adopted by the New Age movement to mean lines of ‘earth energies’, Watkins’ original vision was simply of a system of alignments of natural and man-made feature...More Info
Worsbrough Dale War Memorial: Great War 1914-1918
**Released by Barnsley FHS: August 2016.** **Dedicated to the 121 men of Worsbrough Bridge and Worsbrough Dale, who made the supreme sacrifice.** Chapter headings by year: 1914-1919 With 121 detailed biographies. The final chapter is dedicated to the 11 Worsbrough men killed in action (1914-1918) whose names are not recorded on the memorial. **Surnames in index:** ABR...More Info