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All for Love: Seven Centuries of Illicit Liaison
All for Love: Seven Centuries of Illicit Liaison
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This intriguing book explores seven centuries of relationships outside - and occasionally within - marriage, from all levels of society and from the perspectives of both women and men.
Blue & White Transfer-Printed Pottery
Blue & White Transfer-Printed Pottery
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Chavasse's Advice to a Wife
Chavasse's Advice to a Wife
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Republished here on fully-searchable CD-ROM is the 15th edition of Pye Henry Chavasse's "Advice to a Wife on the Management of here own Health and on the Treatment of some of the Complaints Incidental to Pregnancy, Labour and Suckling", which was issued in 1909 ...
Collecting Picture Postcards
Collecting Picture Postcards
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The story of the development of the picture postcard and the growing, low cost hobby of collecting postcards. Written in an easy, entertaining style, the book will appeal to such ...
Constitutions of Free and Accepted Masons 1884
Constitutions of Free and Accepted Masons 1884
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Containing the general Charges, Laws, and Regulations, etc., etc. 1884 with amendments to January, 1888. Published under the authority of the United Grand Lodge. It includes many line drawings of regalia
Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain
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 ...
Costume From 1500 to Present Day
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 ...
Craft of the Bellfounder
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, ...
Dairying Bygones
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 ...
Discovering Bells & Bellringing
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 ...
Discovering English Customs & Traditions
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 ...
Discovering Stained Glass
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 ...
Dolls' Houses
Dolls' Houses
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Domestic Bygones
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 ...
English Family 1450-1700
English Family 1450-1700
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English Windsor Chairs
English Windsor Chairs
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Everyday Fashions of the 20th Cent
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 ...
Fire Marks
Fire Marks
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First Aid & Home Nursing
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 ...
Hops & Hop Picking
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 ...
Huguenot Hints: Beginner's Guide
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 ...
Images of England: Workhouses of the North
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.

Keeping Their Place: Domestic Service
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 ...
Life in the Victorian and Edwardian Workhouse
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 ...
Midwives & Medical Men
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 ...
My Ancestor was in Service
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 ...
My Ancestors Were Gypsies
My Ancestors Were Gypsies
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Gypsies in Britain can not usually be found in the regular sources of genealogy research ... census records, trade directories, and parish records, but there are plenty of others places to look, and this book advises where ...
Needlework & Embroidery Tools
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 ...
Old English Customs 1896
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 ...
Old English Social Life as told by the Parish Registers
Old English Social Life as told by the Parish Registers
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Old English Social Life as told by the Parish Registers gives a history and view of old Parish Records in England, and includes superstitions and strange beliefs, epidemics, parish scandals and punishments, birth and baptism, marriage, death and the grave, parish usages, social customs, local events ...
Oxford Dictionary of English Folklore
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 ...
Pillow Lace & Bobbins
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 ...
Rocking Horses
Rocking Horses
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Social Life in Britain Conquest to the Reformation
Social Life in Britain from the Conquest to the Reformation
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Compiled by G.G. Coulton, M.A., and published 1918. This book now on CD, gives a background to the social history of the Middle Ages. It includes sections on Birth and Nurture, Church and Churchmen, Rich and Poor, Sports and Pastimes, Women's Life, House, Dress and Meals, etc ...
Sundials
Sundials
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The Huguenots in England and Ireland
The Huguenots in England and Ireland
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The Huguenots their Settlements, Churches, and Industries, in England and Ireland is a very readable account of the birth of Protestant reform in Europe from the Reformation through the two waves of mass-migration culminating in the French Revolution. Accompanied by very valuable biographical notices on many leading Huguenot families and their descendants ...
Union Workhouse
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 ...
The Victorian Hospital
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 ...
The Victorian Public School
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 ...
Victorian Schoolroom
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 ...
Victorian Workhouse
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.
Year 1000: What Life Was Like
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  ...
Victorian & Edwardian Prisons
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 ...
Wrought Iron
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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