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Topic	Time period	Resource	Locations Covered
Social life and customs		Azzopardi, Hugh. The Maltese: background notes and cultural activities. Richmond, Victoria, Australia: Hodja Educational Resources Cooperative, 1983	Malta
Work, class structure	20th century	Zammit, Edward L. A colonial inheritance: Maltese perceptions of work, power and class structure with reference to the labour movement. Malta University Press, 1984	Malta
Social life and customs	17th and 18th centuries	Grima, Valentina. Insights into social life on Hospitaller Malta and Gozo: seventeenth- and eighteenth-century petitions to the Grand Master. Malta University Press, 2019	Hospitaller Malta and Gozo, Malta
Social life and customs	18th century	Caruana, Matthew. Aspects of social life in late 18th-century Malta as seen through the records of the ‘Magna Curia Castellaniae’. Malta University Press, 2017	Malta
Family life	20th century	Abela, Anthony M. Family and social values in Europe and Malta. Malta University Press, 1995	Malta
Social life and customs		Boissevain, Jeremy. Hal-Farrug: a village in Malta. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969	Hal-Farrug, Malta
Rural life		Boissevain, Jeremy. A village in Malta. New York; Montreal; London: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980	Malta
Culinary customs, rural life		Cremona, Matty; Arrigo, Kurt. A year in the country: life and food in rural Malta. [Malta]: Proximus Pub, 2004	Malta
Culinary customs		Galizia, Helen Caruana; Lupi, Darrin Zammit; Galizia, Anne Caruana. The food and cookery of Malta and Gozo. Sta Venera, Malta: Midsea Books, 2016	Malta
Social life and customs	18th century	Ciappara, Frans. Society and the Inquisition in early modern Malta. San Gwann Malta: Publishers Enterprises Group (PEG), 2001	Malta
Social life and customs	21st century	Borg, Carmel; Vella, Raphael. Shooting society: documenting contemporary life in Malta. Valletta (M): Midsea Books, 2012	Malta
Social life and customs		Shaw, Ross. The Malta report. Rowlands Castle: Scope International, 1996	Malta
Home life, domesticity	17th and 18th centuries	Said-Zammit, George A. Houses and domestic space in seventeenth and eighteenth century Hospitaller Malta. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021	Malta
Holiday customs, sports, ceremonies, superstitions		Busuttil, Vincenzo. Holiday customs in Malta and sports, usages, ceremonies, omens & superstitions of the Maltese people. Malta: L. Busuttil, 1894	Malta
Social life and customs		Troubridge, Amelia; De Bono, Edward . Malta diaries''. [London, England]: Trolley, 2006	Malta
Social life and customs		Boissevain, Jeremy. H̳al Kirkop : a village in Malta. Valletta: Midsea Books, 2006	H̳al Kirkop, Malta
Folktales, stories		Attard, Robert. Malta: a collection of tales and narratives. Zebbug, Malta: Edward De Bono Foundation, 2001	Malta
Education, health		Cauchi, Maurice N. A picture of Gozo: studies on ethnographic, educational, and health aspects of life in Gozo. [Ghajnsielem, Gozo]: Gozo Press, 1998	Gozo, Malta
Religion, language, politics, history	19th century	Wilson, S. S.; Baxter, George. A narrative of the Greek mission, or, Sixteen years in Malta and Greece: including tours in the Peloponnesus, in the Aegean and Ionian Isles: with remarks on the religious opinions, moral state, social habits, politics, language, history, and lazarettos of Malta and Greece. London: John Snow, 35, Paternoster Row, 1839	Malta
Folktales, stories		Attard, Robert. Malta: a third collection of tales and narratives. Zebbug, Malta: Edward De Bono Foundation, 2003	Malta
Folktales, stories		Attard, Robert. Malta: a second collection of tales and narratives. Zebbug,Malta: Edward De Bono Foundation, 2001	Malta