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A Guide to Tracing the History of a Business
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Our Price: AU$55.00 Inc GST
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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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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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English, Irish and Scottish Firearms Makers
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This biographical encyclopedia of firearms makers of the British Isles provides information on gunsmiths collected from a wide range of primary and secondary sources, providing as comprehensively as possible an alphabetical listing of those who worked in the British Isles from the earliest times.
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Female Occupations: Women's Employment 1850-1950
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Our Price: AU$46.50 Inc GST
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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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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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Our Price: AU$39.00 Inc GST
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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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Our Price: AU$37.00 Inc GST
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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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Our Price: AU$20.50 Inc GST
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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 Royal Marine
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Our Price: AU$26.00 Inc GST
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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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Our Price: AU$33.50 Inc GST
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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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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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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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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 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 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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Tracing Your Canal Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians
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'Tracing Your Canal Ancestors' covers the people (and their families) who lived and worked on the waterways. As well as giving guidance to the sources - the archives, books, websites , societies - available for researchers ...
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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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Our Price: AU$39.95 Inc GST
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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 Servant Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians
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Covering the period from the eighteenth century through to the Second World War, this book gives a fascinating insight into the conditions of domestic service and the experience of those who worked within it.
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Tracing Your Shipbuilding Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians
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Our Price: AU$34.95 Inc GST
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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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Our Price: AU$29.95 Inc GST
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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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Our Price: AU$19.00 Inc GST
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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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What Did They Do?: Ancestral Terminology
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What Did They Do? gives you the meanings of 9750+ occupations together with various older terms no longer in use today. Use it to find out just what an Owler is, or a Necker, Lapicide, or Hand pack miller. Did you know that a Galloon maker was one who made narrow, close woven braid for binding dresses, of gold, silver, silk or cotton ...
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