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A Guide to Tracing the History of a Business
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Covering businesses in England, 'Tracing the History of a Business' outlines the principal sources available to researchers and comprehensively covers a procedure for the search. Most importantly, it has been brought up to date to include the recent development of online sources ...
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Beers and Breweries of Britain
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This book explores beer's 6000 year history and explains how different styles emerged through the use of different materials and processing methods. The story is brought up to date with an insider's expose of the modern brewing process and an account of which processing aids are employed ...
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Brewers in Hertfordshire: A Historical Gazetteer
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Brewing and its associated activities have been important industries in Hertfordshire for centuries. In 'Brewers in Hertfordshire' Allan Whitaker presents a detailed history of brewing in the county from 1700 to the present day ...
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Coopers and Coopering
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Wooden casks, or what most people today call barrels, are containers of exceptional strength, durability, versatility and mobility, but they have become a rarity in Britain, displaced so ...
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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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Female Occupations: Women's Employment 1850-1950
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This is a carefully researched A-Z of women's employment, covering over 100 years of change. 'Female Occupations' is aimed especially at family historians, and contains over 300 entries. Each of these have some explanation of what the job entailed, the historical setting ...
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Fishing and Fishermen: A Guide for Family Historians
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Martin Wilcox's concise and informative guide to the fishing industry will be absorbing reading for anyone who wants to learn about its history or to find out about the life of a fisherman and his family ...
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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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Ironworking
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Iron has been used for about 4000 years, it was essential to the industrial revolution and is still the principal metal of commerce. For centuries ironmaking was a manual craft ...
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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 a Coalminer
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In the early 1900s there was over one million coalminers in the United Kingdom. Was your ancestor one of them? What do you know about him? Find out where to find information on him ...
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My Ancestor was a Lawyer
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Although several histories exist of the two main branches of the legal profession - barristers and solicitors - there is no publication written specifically for family historians that reviews the ...
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My Ancestor was a Merchant Seaman: How Can I Find Out More About Him?
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This book is sure to become one of the 'bibles' for family historians wanting to research ancient mariners! Divided into 12 sections, covering records held both by TNA and by other archives and libraries. Packed full of places to search and the records ...
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My Ancestor Was A Policeman: How Can I Find Out More About Him?
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This booklet contains details of some 250 archives with references to many thousands of names recorded in the police force registers in Britain.
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My Ancestor was a Railway Worker: A Guide to Understanding Records About Railway People
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The chances of you having an English relative who worked on the railways is pretty high. Railways were "the" growth industry of the mid/late 19th century with even tiny villages being connected to the ever-increasing rail network. ...
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My Ancestor was a Royal Marine
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This new book fills a gap in the genealogical market and provides guidance in tracing ancestors who served in the Royal Marines. The book outlines the records available and where to find them and includes a chapter on the history of the service ...
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My Ancestor was a Studio Photographer
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Written by well-known photo historian, Robert Pols, this is a guide to tracing the career and work of ancestors who worked in commercial studio photography. This book examines how you may be able to trace surviving examples ...
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My Ancestor was an Agricultural Labourer
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The book aims to provide the social and economic context of the life of the agricultural labourer while outlining the various records available to research their lives ...
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My Ancestor was an Anglican Clergyman
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'My Ancestor was an Anglican Clergyman' is a very useful guide for anyone researching their ancestors who were ordained ministers of the Church of England, the Church of Wales, the ...
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My Ancestor was an Apprentice
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We all have apprentices amongst our ancestors, and fortunately it was a legal requirement to serve an apprenticeship before practicing a trade, and what a wonderful source of information theses records can be. The aim of this book is to outline the history of apprenticeship, and to describe the records which survive ...
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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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My Ancestor Worked in the Theatre
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This book which relates specifically to tracing your family history in the theatre (including pantomime and music), is designed to guide the family historian through the various steps to be ...
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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 ...
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My Ancestors were Watermen: A Guide to Tracing Your Thames Watermen and Lightermen Ancestors
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For those with ancestors who worked on the London Docks 'My Ancestors were Watermen' is a book for you. The first part of the book introduces the Company of Watermen, with a brief history, while the second part covers the steps to be taken to trace your ancestors ...
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Old Medical and Dental Instruments
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The increasing interest in medical antiques has been reflected in the programmes of all the major auction houses. In addition the formation of the Medical Collectors Association has stimulated interest ...
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Policing Hampshire and the Isle of Wight: A Photographic History
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The history of formal policing in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight dates from 1832. In that year the first City Force was founded in Winchester. The story of the ...
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Post Offices
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For generations the local post office has been integral to life in Britain. This book provides an historical overview of the development of this public institution, from the 'letter receiving house' to a familiar presence of the high street. It outlines the range of services post offices have provided over time ...
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Railway Ancestors: A Guide to the Staff Records of the Railway Companies of England and Wales 1822-1947
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'Railway Ancestors' is a comprehensive and illustrated guide which opens up to genealogists and railway enthusiasts the vast range of unique information stored in the documentary archives of the railway companies of England and Wales. It describes in detail the sources available for the researcher and how to gain access to them, giving examples of the many different types of records ...
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Researching Brewery and Publican Ancestors
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This, the second edition of Simon Fowler's 'Researching Brewery and Publican Ancestors', will lead the researcher to the many avenues of research available ...
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Stone: Quarrying and Building in England Ad43-1525
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Sugarbakers: From Sweat to Sweetness
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Beginning in 1544 and reaching its heyday in the 18th and 19th centuries, the sugar refining industry in Britain was noted for a high proportion of German immigrants. In fact, it was possibly the most common profession Germans worked in ...
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Thatch and Thatching
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The craft of the thatcher probably gives more pleasure to people than any other of our rural crafts; the inclusion in a country scene of a thatched house, ...
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The District Nurse
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This illuminating book shows how the role of the district nurse has moved on greatly since Queen Victoria’s Jubilee, expanding and developing to provide a broad range of invaluable health care services in the community ...
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The Haberdashers' Company
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The Haberdashers' Company was founded in the 14th century as an association of men engaged in the trade of haberdashery. The aim was to regulate the trade, to provide relief ...
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The History of Work and Wages
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A very interesting study of work and wages from Medieval to Victorian times, with chapters including - The Famine and the Plague; The English Poor Law; Agricultural Wages in the 18th Century; Wages in the 19th Century, etc. Useful for family, social and economic history ...
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The Railway Year Book for 1922
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'The Whitaker of the railway world'. Published at a very significant turning point in railway history, just prior to the amalgamation of the various regional railways into the grouping of the 'Big Four' companies. Over 500 pages of fascinating information ...
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The Victorian Railway Worker
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Railways quickly became one of the largest employers in the UK, giving work not only to those who ran the trains, but also to a wide range of craftsmen and ...
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The Victorian Soldier
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Although lacking the sophisticated weapons of today, Victorian soldiers were basically no different from their present-day successors. This book aims to bring these soldiers to life through their uniforms, weapons, ...
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The Victorian Undertaker
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The author shows how undertakers catered for these complex and sober events, and the various funeral options they offered, as well as assessing the extent to which funerals reflected the social divisions within the nineteenth-century society. This book will interest social historians ...
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The Village Shop
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Once the core of the rural community, the village shop has now almost entirely disappeared from everyday life. This well-loved institution was a key part for rural communities, once stocking everything from ...
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Tracing Your East Anglian Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians
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Gill Blanchard's practical and informative handbook will help you trace your ancestors in the traditional counties of East Anglia - Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge and Essex. As well as guiding the researcher to historical records held in all the relevant archives ...
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Tracing Your Legal Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians
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The law had an extraordinary range of individuals, from eminent judges and barristers to clerks and minor officials. Stephen Wade’s concise account of legal history and research resources will be an invaluable guide for anyone who is studying the subject or seeking an ancestor who was associated with it ...
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Tracing Your Pauper Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians
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The history of paupers and pauperism is not something that people know much about. This book provides a guide to documents and records, from medieval times tot he twentieth century, that researchers can use the trace their English pauper ancestors ...
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Tracing Your Railway Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians
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This easy-to-read book guides the reader through the social, technical and economic aspects of the story. She also introduces the reader to the variety of records that is available for genealogical research ...
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Tracing Your Secret Service Ancestors
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If you have ever had any suspicions about the secret activities of your relatives, or are curious about the long hidden history of Britain's secret services and those who served in them, this is the book for you ...
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Tracing Your Shipbuilding Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians
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This practical handbook will be an invaluable guide for family and local historians and for readers with a more general interest in shipbuilding. It introduces the variety of national and local records that are available for genealogical research and considers the many other resources that can yield fascinating information ...
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Tracing Your Textile Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians
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Covering the social and historical aspects of the trade and time, the author also provides details on the variety of records that are available for genealogical research, from census returns, websites and publications to company records and registers, regional archives ...
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Trades and Professions: The Family Historians Guide
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Family history is not just about tracing our ancestors’ births, marriages and deaths. It is also about understanding our ancestors’ lives. Occupational sources are particularly important, and a huge amount of information about our ancestors can be discovered by consulting occupational records ...
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