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All for Love: Seven Centuries of Illicit Liaison
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Blue & White Transfer-Printed Pottery
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Coaching Days and Coaching Ways
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Collecting Picture Postcards
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Complete Domestic Medicine
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Written and published in 1849, this book contains lots of illustrations of the skeleton, muscles and body, complete with labels. The book is a treatise on the prevention and cure ...
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Constitutions of Free and Accepted Masons 1884
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Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain
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'Consuming Passions' reveals a nation that was far busier and more colourful than the image usually associated with Victorians ... newspapers, books, department stores, theatre are just a few things that this era brought ...
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Costume From 1500 to the Present Day
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Costumes and clothes are the most visible means we have of expressing ourselves. For hundreds of years they have been used to signify status, power, political messages and ...
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Craft of the Bellfounder
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The bellfounder's craft is traced from prehistoric China to the present day. Every aspect of the craft is covered; from the mining, smelting and alloying of the metal, through design, ...
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Dairying Bygones
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Farm dairies were gradually superseded by large factory-based firms, but many of the objects used by the old farmers and country folk, such as milking stools and pails, churns for making butter, butter beaters and more are illustrated in this guide ...
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Dionis' Chirurgical Operations 1733
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A unique book, this one gives descriptions of all manner of surgical procedures in minute detail, as they were performed in the early eighteenth century. From treatment of carbuncles to ...
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Discovering Bells and Bellringing
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One unique aspect of the British countryside if the sound of church bells being rung. Most countries have bells that are tolled and some have mechanical carillons, but ...
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Discovering Cameras 1945-1965
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This book traces the changes in the years from 1945 to 1965 when there were considerable advances in photography and in cameras. At the start of the period ...
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Discovering English Customs and Traditions
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Tip-toeing at Gittisham, tree-dressing at Aston-on-Clun, coconut dancing in Bacup and clipping-the-church at Painswick are all rituals peculiar to their localities, annual contributions to the extraordinary fabric of ...
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Discovering Old Cameras 1839-1939
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The camera obscura has been used for centuries as an artist’s tool but in 1839 the world heard that it was possible to capture the image by chemical means without ...
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Discovering Stained Glass
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Most churches and cathedrals contain stained glass; even the most unassuming buildings may have spectacular windows full of figures painted as if by coloured light. This wealth of imagery dates ...
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Dolls' Houses
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Domestic Bygones
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For many people life in the early twentieth century was not very different from what it has been in the eighteenth century, but after the Second World War standards of ...
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English Costume
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Fabulous descriptions of English styles of dress dating from the 11th century until 1830, with lots of beautiful illustrations. Essential reading for all family historians as it helps us all ...
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English Family 1450-1700
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English Windsor Chairs
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Everyday Fashions of the 20th Century
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The author has always been fascinated by how people lived in the past, by the work they did and by the clothes they wore to do it. The invention of ...
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Fairholt's Costume in England
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A history of dress from the very early Britons with their flint knives and arrowheads to the end of the 18th century with it's bonnets and fans. What differentiates ...
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Fire Marks
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First Aid and Home Nursing
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A collection of four books on one CD, including "Five Ambulance Lectures", "Home Nursing", "First Aid to the Injured, the authorised text book of St John's Ambulance" and an earlier ...
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Hill's Family Herbal 1812
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Published in 1812, this title gives detailed descriptions of plants and herbs with medicinal qualities, together with how they were prepared, as well as information on their use and effects.
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Hops and Hop Picking
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This book examines the history of the hop from the earliest times to the present day, describing the traditional tools of the trade, the oasts, the growers, the pickers and all those whose versatile skills have ...
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Huguenot Hints: A Beginner's Guide to Hugeunot Research in England and France
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This is a 'how to' genealogical research guide to tracing French Huguenot ancestry from the Australian viewpoint. It cites detailed sources in both French and English records and described the ...
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Images of England: Workhouses of the North
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This book takes a look at both surviving and lost examples of workhouse buildings in the North of England, covering the old counties of Cumberland, Northumberland, Durham, Westmoreland, and Yorkshire.
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Ince's English History, Customs and Dress
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The full title of this publication is 'English History: With Very Copious Notices of the Customs, Manners, Dress, Arts, Commerce etc, of the Different Periods'. Written in 1860 this is ...
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Keeping Their Place: Domestic Service in the Country House
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In 1851 there were over a million domestic servants in Britain, many employed in country houses. Today, this is a vanished world. In 'Keeping their Place' Pamela Sambrook presents extracts ...
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Life in the Victorian and Edwardian Workhouse
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This book establishes a true picture of what life was like in a workhouse, of why inmates entered them and of what they had to endure in their day-to-day routine. A comprehensive overview of the workhouse system gives a real ...
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Madmen: A Social History of Madhouses, Mad-Doctors and Lunatics
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The best-selling popular historian, Roy Porter, looks at the bizarre and savage practices used by doctors for treating those afflicted by manias, ranging from huge doses of opium ...
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Midwives and Medical Men: A History of the Struggle for the Control of Childbirth
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Up to the 17th century attendance on childbirth was 'women's business', but in the middle of the 19th century it became a male monopoly. This was reversed thanks to feminist ...
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My Ancestor was in Service: A Guide to Sources for Family Historians
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This book seeks to give guidance to researchers wishing to find out about relatives who were in service of who had themselves employed domestic staff ...
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Needlework and Embroidery Tools
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As manufactured goods gradually became more easily available, ladies developed crafts such as needlework, which had previously been an essential skill for making clothing and household linens, to occupy their increased ...
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Old English Customs Extant at the Present Time 1896
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Written by P.H. Ditchfield, this title gives an account of local observances, festival customs and ancient ceremonies surviving in Great Britain as at 1896. It provides descriptions of the ancient folk-customs still being performed in villages the length and breadth of England ...
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Old English Social Life
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Old English Social Life as told by the Parish Registers.
By T.F. Thiselton-Dyer, M.A. Published 1898.
A history and view of old Parish Records in England.
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Oxford Dictionary of English Folklore
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Folklore is connected to virtually every aspect of life, part of the country, age group and occupation. From the bizarre to the seemingly mundane, folklore is as much a feature ...
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Photography in a Nutshell
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Written in 1899, here in everything you would need to know on how to take photos, and the rest of the processes involved as at the time.
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Pillow Lace and Bobbins
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Lacemaking was once a widespread cottage industry but now it is growing in popularity as a hobby. This book describes and illustrates different varieties of lace and the tools used ...
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Ploughs and Ploughing
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One of the most basic of agricultural operation, ploughing enrichens and aerates the soil, producing a fertile seed bed ideal for the germination and growth of a new crop. The ...
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Popular Errors Explained and Illustrated
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A fabulous book which sets out contemporary thinking on a quite enormous range of subjects such as smallpox innocculation, the relative merits of hot and cold bathing, the dangers of ...
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Rocking Horses
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Social Life in Britain from the Conquest to the Reformation
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Compiled by G. G. Coulton, M.A. Published 1918. A background to the social history of the Middle Ages.
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Something for Everyone: Domestic Arts and Customs
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Coloured title page with illustration of Brambletye House. To the reader dated June 1861. Contents, New Year's Day, St Distaff's Day, St Blaze's Day, Palm Sundy, Morris Dance etc. Pall ...
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Songs of Life
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A very sweet book with charming colour pictures and songs from the 19th and 20th century.
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Sundials
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The Book of Household Management
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Everyone has heard of it. But this edition is very special indeed. Mrs Beeton died in 1865, four years before this second edition of her famous book was published. Subsequent ...
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The English Herbal Physician
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This is an alphabetical table of herbs and plants written by Nich. Culpepper in the mid 1700s. He describes all the herbs in great detail, what they look like, where ...
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The Gentleman's Magazine Library 1731-1868 Manners and Customs
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The original Gentleman's Magazine contained articles on a vast array of subjects, including lots of wonderful topographical pieces. In 1891 George Gomme republished all of these topographical articles but edited ...
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The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England
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A really fascinating book for those who would like to understand the activities of their ancestors through the centuries.
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The Union Workhouse: A Study Guide for Teachers and Local Historians
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After the Poor Law reform of 1834 the workhouse became the symbol of a new, often harsh regime which passed into folk memory and has left a legacy of large ...
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The Victorian Chemist and Druggist
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After a brief historical introduction and a description of a Victorian chemist and druggist's shop, this book describes and illustrates many of the items used and sold there. Most of ...
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The Victorian Hospital
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Nowadays most seriously ill people would want to go to hospital, where they have a reasonable chance of recovery. But the experience of a sick person in the 1830s was ...
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The Victorian Public School
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Trevor May examines the development of the Victorian and Edwardian public school, and the paradox of an institution that in the century that saw Britain established as 'the workshop of the world', turned out not industrialists, but gentlemen ...
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The Victorian Schoolroom
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There was a tremendous expansion of education in England and Wales during the nineteenth century. A combination of voluntary effort and government action led to the introduction of a system ...
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The Victorian Workhouse
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Whether it was 'the bastille', 'the spike', 'the work'us', or simply 'the house', the Victorian workhouse was the cause of dread and shame for thousands of men, women and children.
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The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium
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In the year 1000 the world was one of mystery and magicians, monks, warriors and wandering merchants - people who feared an apocalypse and who had no idea ...
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Victorian and Edwardian Prisons
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Prisons ... although they have existed in Britain for over a thousand years, it was not until the nineteenth century that prisons became the cornerstone of the penal system. This ...
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Victorian Cartes-de-Visite
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In the early 1860s the craze for collecting carte-de-visite photographs (often referred to as cartomania) was at its peak. Between 300 and 400 million cartes were estimated to have been ...
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Workhouse: The People, The Places, The Life Behind Doors
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Workhouses were created to relieve poverty but were universally loathed by the Victorian poor. This compelling account reveals the institution, the staff and buildings, the rules and routines, and of course the men, women and children who lived and worked in them.
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Wrought Iron
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Wrought iron has been used as a decorative element in architecture from the eleventh to the twentieth centuries. At first a device to strengthen and embellish doors, wrought iron was ...
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