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A 1066 Sourcebook: A Collection of Materials Relating to the Norman Conquest of England and its Impact Upon Scotland
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This CD contains three separate books detailing the invasion of England in 1066, the families which went to Britain with that invasion, and the families which settled further north in ...
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A Cornish Names Sourcebook
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Although the beginning of the 18th century saw the demise of Cornish as a spoken language, the names unique to the region remained, and these three studies give a wealth of information on those names, their origins and meanings.
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A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words Volumes I and II
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Published as a two volume set in 1878, this Dictionary comes with 'obsolete phrases, proverbs and ancient customs - from the 14th century to the 19th century'. This fascinating work contains a comprehensive dictionary (over 50,000 entries) of old and unusual regional words and phrases used across England, from medieval to Victorian times ...
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A History of Roman Britain
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From the invasions of Julius Caesar to the unexpected end of Roman rule in the early fifth century AD and the subsequent collapse of society in Britain, this is the ...
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A Treasury of Royal Scandals: The Shocking True Stories of History's Wickedest, Weirdest, Most Wanton Kings, Queens, Tsars, Popes and Emperors
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In this royal expose, Farquhar, covers such topics as Peter the Great's delight in administering torture (he had his son lashed to death) and the way Britain's Queen Mary cajoled ...
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A User-Friendly Dictionary of Old English
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This dictionary contains over 3500 of the most common worlds in Old English (Anglo-Saxon) and should be useful for beginners in translating simple passages of Old English prose and ...
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Acta Regia
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This is an account of the Acts, Treaties, Letters and Instruments between English Monarchs and foreign powers, as well as details of many Public Acts relating to various domestic matters.
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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.
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Along Lost Lines: Discovering the Glorious Heritage of Yesterday's Railways
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Rich in romance and nostalgia, this fascinating book takes the reader on an odyssey around Britain in pursuit of the lost railways. This title focuses on the 10,000 miles of lines closed in Britain since the 1950s ...
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And the Crew Went Too: The £10 Assisted Passage
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The end of WWII heralded one of the largest mass migrations ever seen from Europe. Millions left their homelands for new horizons, and Britain was no exception. Australia, like New Zealand and Canada, needed many thousands of new workers so that it could grow ...
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Animal-Powered Machines
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The use of animal power declined with the development of the railways, yet a surprising number of these early machines survive and can still be found. The author identifies the various types of machine and deals with their use in the past ...
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Baking and Bakeries
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A staple food in many diets, bread has been baked since ancient times and is considered a basic necessity by many. 'Baking and Bakeries' charts the history of baking. The author describes the different methods used in baking and the range of tools ...
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Battle of Hastings-S
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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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Blue & White Transfer-Printed Pottery
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Britain's Royal Heritage: An A to Z of the Monarchy
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Royal scandals, wars, ceremonies, households, tombs and insignia make fascinating reading, and this book is the ideal reference work for all those who want to know more about individual monarchs and the impressive legacy of myths, traditions, beliefs and practices that have grown up around the institution of the monarchy ...
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Britain's Working Coast in Victorian and Edwardian Times
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The coastline of Victorian and Edwardian Britain provided beauty, entertainment and the venue for most people’s holidays. But it was also a thriving centre of industry. This book travels around Britain’s coast looking at the industries that could be found ...
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British Family Names: Their Origin and Meaning
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This reference work takes all of Great Britain as its subject, and seeks to identify and explain British surnames in great part according to their origin and use. The majority of the work is an alphabetical listing of British names with their origin or meaning ...
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Buckingham Palace
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Besides being the official London residence of The Queen, Buckingham Palace is also the busy administrative headquarters of the monarchy and has probably the most famous and easily recognisable façade ...
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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 ...
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Cheshire Country Houses
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Cheshire contains some of England's best loved country houses and the county is exceptionally rich in attractive yet unfamiliar architecture. There are the black and white houses of the Elizabethans; ...
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Chichester Cathedral: An Historical Survey
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Chichester Cathedral's changing fortunes are traced in this book, from the original foundation at Selsey through every period of its history right up to recent restoration. It offers a complete ...
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Chronicles of Crime Volumes 1 and 2
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Newgate Prison was a prison in London. This CD is a compilation of both volume 1 and 2 of the 'Chronicles of Crime' which is a biographical record of the more notorious criminals confined at Newgate ...
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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 ...
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Colonial Office List 1863
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Otherwise titled 'General Register of the Colonial Dependencies of Great Britain' this book contains general official information regarding the colonies that Great Britain held at this time throughout the world.
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Colonial Office List 1870
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Covers colonies ranging from Antigua, Canada, Ceylon, Gambia, Hong Kong, Newfoundland, Sierra Leone, the Virgin Islands as well as the Australian colonies and New Zealand and many more.
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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
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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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Cornish Family Names
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This handy reference work serves not only to give the origins and meanings of over 100 true Cornish family names. It is packed with information and stories of many Cornish people who have left their mark and their family names in some of the farthest flung corners of the ...
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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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Criminal London: A Pictorial History from Medieval Times to 1939
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London has always had more than its fair share of criminals. Crime has been a permanent part of London life and medieval records contain many references to murders, fights, forgery ...
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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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Department Stores
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For more than 100 years people have flocked to department stores, whether to browse the huge range of goods or visit a certain department for something specific. Over the years there have been many changes within the stores. This book outlines the evolution of the department store, from innovatious in retailing, advertising ...
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Deserted Villages
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Although most famously deserted as a result of the Black Death in the 14th century, villages have been abandoned throughout history. This book explains how villages have become deserted, and describes how former houses and roads can often still be recognised ...
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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 Cathedrals
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There are forty-eight Anglican cathedrals in England and Wales. Some of them are ancient places of worship, rich in history and of grand proportions; others are more recent ...
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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 English Dialects
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As long ago as the 1720s Daniel Defoe was pondering on the eccentricities of English dialects, and three hundred of so years before him John Trevisa had censured ...
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Discovering Famous Graves
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The graves of the famous are of abiding interest, both for their often unexpected and unusual locations, and for the light they throw on individual lives. This book gives fascinating ...
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Discovering Horse-Drawn Farm Machinery
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Following the Industrial Revolution the ingenuity of Victorian manufacturers produced an enormous range of horse-drawn agricultural machinery - ploughs, grubbers, cultivators, harrows and more. This book describes these machines and includes drawings and ...
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Discovering Parish Boundaries
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Recorded only by dotted lines on an Ordnance Survey map, sometimes marked by half-forgotten mossy stones, parish boundaries are a fascinating part of our landscape heritage, often preserving ...
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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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Domesday Book: A Complete Translation
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'Domesday Book' is one of the most famous documents in English history - and arguably in world history. Now available in one volume, here is the complete, authoritative ...
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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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Elizabeth's London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London
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Liza Picard's Elizabeth's Londoni completes a trilogy of books on London throughout history, starting with Restoration Londoni and followed by Dr Johnson's Londoni. From the outset, Picard admits that Elizabethan ...
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England in Days of Old
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Written by William Andrews, and published in 1897, this title is an entertaining and instructive study of the social and domestic life in England in times past. Includes attractive line drawings ...
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English Castles
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The castle was a special kind of manor holding. Usually castles could only be built by the approval of the king, who wanted to ensure that any good fortified castle ...
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English Churchyard Memorials
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The church is the physical and spiritual centre of the English village, and elegant pinnacled tower, a distant spire glimpsed between tall trees, a tiny church come upon unexpectedly as ...
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English Family 1450-1700
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English Farmhouses
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The farmhouse is an essential and attractive part of the English landscape and thousands of examples still grace the countryside. In this superbly illustrated book the author examines the changing ...
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English Place-Names Explained
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A comprehensive study of English place-names - their linguistic roots, historical connections and meanings. Includes a county-by-county guide to the main place-names and their origins.
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English Style
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During the great and prosperous reign of the Tudors, substantial country houses began to appear throughout the English countryside. The trend continued, and many more gracious residences were built in ...
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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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Family Names and Their Story
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Written by S. Baring-Gould, and publish in 1910, this reference work still provides invaluable information, not only for Scottish, but for English surname origins as well.
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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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From Chantry to Oxfam: A Short History of Charities and Charity Legislation
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The history of charity-giving and charity legislation is very long, but also complicated and confusing. In the past uncertainties about charities and their status were legion, and the ...
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Glass and Glassmaking
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A general introduction to the vast and complex subject of glass, not only the history and technology of glassmaking but also the social background of the lives of the glassmakers.
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Gloucester: The Country Houses Vol 2-S
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This is a new edition of the book that helped to establish a new canon of country house studies and inspire a national series, county by county. Almost a new ...
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Greenwich: The Place Where Days Begin and End
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No more than a couple of suqare miles in area, the historical centre of Greenwich is the birthplace of classical architecture in England, the spiritual home of its ...
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Growing Up in Medieval London: The Experience of Childhood in History
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Bringing together a wealth of evidence drawn from court records, literary sources and books of advice, the author weaves a rich tapestry of the lives of the common children of ...
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Heavy Horses
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This book examines the various breeds of heavy horse and their qualities, their historical role, the industry that built up around them and their modern revival, bringing the story up to date and ...
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Home Front 1914-1918: How Britain Survived the Great War
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The war years brought far-reaching changes in Britain, as ordinary people - from schoolchildren to the elderly, ladies of leisure to coalminers - struggled to adapt to new conditions and an often perilous world ...
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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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The first part of the book explains how 'probably most families that possess a pedigree of seven or eight generation have at least one descent from the Kings of England ... even though they may be quite unaware of it'. The second part, The Scottish Records, details the various types of public records ...
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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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Immigrants and Aliens: A Guide to Sources on UK Immigration and Citizenship
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Over the centuries there have been many waves of immigrant (or aliens as described in official documentation) arriving in the UK. This book describes the records that have survived.
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Immigration Instructions C1860's
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Facsimile of snippets from the 'Explanatory Observations on the Immigration Remittance Regulations' compiled 1858. Appendix A is a note from the Colonial Secretary's Office dated 1857 relating to immigration regulations, ...
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Ireland and England: In the Past and at Present
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The original publication of Ireland & England is fully-indexed, and concerns itself with the complex relationship between England and Ireland, from the earliest times to the present - in this case 1919. Well written and very readable, Ireland & England does not profess to be a scholarly work ...
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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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Justice and the Poor in England
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An account of the position of the poor in legal matters in England and Wales and a study in the inequality in the administration of justice where they are concerned, ...
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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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Kings, Queens, Bones and Bastards: Who's Who in the British Monarchy From Egbert to Elizabeth II
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Tracing Your Textile Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians
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Our Price: AU$39.95
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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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Turnpike Roads
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Turnpike trusts formed an important part of English life from around 1690 to 1840. This book outlines the origins, development, success and decline of the turnpike trusts and some of their associated features ...
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Turnpike Roads, Statutes
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Our Price: AU$20.00
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These Acts lay down the various rules governing a variety of subject including the construction of wagon wheels, weight of carts, tolls and penalties for avoiding toll gates and much more besides.
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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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Village Records
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Our Price: AU$107.00
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This book is unusual, in more ways than one, but not least in that its author, who was at the forefront of local history research and methodology when he first ...
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Warwickshire Country Houses
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Our Price: AU$82.00
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The historic county boasts some of England's finest houses. Many are well-known, from medieval castles or manor houses to great 18th century houses. The often complex histories of such houses ...
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Wells Cathedral
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Our Price: AU$11.50
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Like many buildings which have stood for centuries, Wells Cathedral in Somerset, has had periods of great contrast; periods of intense activity and vigorous building programmes, and periods of neglect ...
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Windsor Castle
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Our Price: AU$10.00
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The historic fortress of Windsor Castle, standing proud one its wooded chalk ridge, has been 'home' to the Queen and earlier sovereigns of England for over 900 years. The rooms ...
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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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