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==Resources==
==Resources==
*[https://www.1900s.org.uk/index.htm Life in 1900s UK] - includes photos and descriptions of places/items, etc. in 1900s UK<Br>
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*[https://www.tota.world/culture/english/#overview English Culture] - TOTA, gives general information about English Culture
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*[https://www.workhouses.org.uk/ The Workhouse] at workhouses.org.uk
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===Publications===
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! Topic !! Time period !! Resource !! Locations Covered
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|Occupations
|1900s
|Randell Arthur R. ''[https://www.worldcat.org/title/5930768 Fenland Railwayma]n''. London: Routledge & K. Paul. 1968.
|East Anglia
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|Occupations, servants
|1920s
|Powell Margaret. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/822959822 ''Tales from below Stairs: The Bestselling Memoirs of a 1920s Kitchen Maid''.] London: Sidgwick & Jackson. 2013
|England
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|History, manor life, peasants||1150-1400||Bennettm, H.S. {{FSC|313574|item|disp=on the English manor: a study of peasant conditions, 1150-1400''}}. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1971||England
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|Social lscience||||Levine, Herbert M. and Owen, Dolores B. {{FSC|375910|item|disp=American guide to British social science resources''}}. Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow Press, 1976||England
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|Travel, fashion, history, amusement||19th Century||Harper, Charles G. {{FSC|2737191|item|disp=Bath road: history, fashion, & frivolity on an old highway''}}. Salt Lake City, Utah : Digitized by FamilySearch International 2014||England
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|Costumes/dress||14th to 19th Century||Cunnington, Phillis  and Buck, Anne. {{FSC|132641|item|disp=costume in England from the fourteenth to the end of the nineteenth century''}}. London, England: A. & C. Black, 1978||England
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|Church history||1770-1970||Norman, Edward Robert. {{FSC|346344|item|disp=and society in England, 1770-1970: a historical study''}}. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1976 ||England
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|Customs and rites||19th Century||Cunnington, Phillis  and Lucas, Catherine. {{FSC|132809|item|disp=for births, marriages and deaths''}}. London, England: A. & C. Black, 1978||England
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|Domestic life||||Lofts, Norah. {{FSC|22525|item|disp=''Domestic life in England''}}. London, England: George Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Ltd, 1976||England
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|Occupations, servants||18th Century||Hecht, J. Jean. {{FSC|108279|item|disp=''The domestic servant in eighteenth-century England''}}. London, England: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980||England
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|Daily life, history||19th-20th Century||Hey, David. {{FSC|1193441|item|disp=our ancestors lived: a history of life a hundred years ago''}}. Kew, England: National Archives (England), 2002||England, Wales
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|Fashion||19th Century||Gernsheim, Alison. {{FSC|2808569|item|disp=& Edwardian fashion: a photographic survey''}}. New York, New York : Dover, 1981||England
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|Manners, morlas, social classes||1774-1858||Morgan, Marjorie. {{FSC|704586|item|disp=morals and class in England, 1774-1858''}}. New York, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994||England
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|Poor
|1851
|Mayhew, Henry. ''London Labour and the London Poor; A Cyclopaedia of the Condition and Earnings of Those That Will Work, Those That Cannot Work, and Those That Will Not Work. Vol. 1'' [https://www.google.com/books/edition/London_Labour_and_the_London_Poor/pmZRAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 '''The London Street Folk''']''. London: George Woodfall and Son. 1851.''
|London
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|Paupers
|1880s
|''Indoor paupers: life inside a London workhouse''. [no publication place]: the Workhouse Press. 2013.
|London
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|Poorhouses||19th Century||Higgs, Michelle. {{FSC|1416832|item|disp=''Life in the Victorian & Edwardian workhouse''}}. Stroud, England : Tempus Pub., 2007||England
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|Army
|1807-1814
|Wheatley, Edmund. ''The Wheatley diary''. London: Longmans, Green & Co. 1964.
|Europe
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|Army
|1808-1814
|Schaumann, August Ludolf Friedrich, and Bernard Cornwell. ''On the road with Wellington: diary of a war commissary in the Peninsular Campaign''. 2015.
|Europe
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|Funeral rites, death/burial customs||1700-1850||edited by Cox, Margaret.  {{FSC|1350039|item|disp=concerns: death and burial in England 1700-1850''}}. York, England: Council for British Archaeology, 1998||England
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|Occupations
|1950s
|Cotterill, Edith. ''Nurse on call''. London: Ebury Press. 2010.
|England
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|Women, marriage||19th Century||Shanley, Mary Lyndon. {{FSC|1834754|item|disp=marriage and the law in Victorian England''}}. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1989||England
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|Occupations, birth customs
|Middle ages to 20th century
|Van Blarcom, Carolyn Conant. ''[https://www.tota.world/article/1577/ The Midwife in England, Being a Study in England of the Working of the English Midwives Act of 1902]''. Wm. F. Fell Company, 1913.
|England
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|Rural Life
|Rural Life
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|Shropshire
|Shropshire
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|Rural Life
|Rural Life|| style="text-align:left" |1895-1955|| style="text-align:left" |Evans, George Ewart. ''Ask The Fellows Who Cut The Hay.'' London: Faber and Faber. 1977.
|18th and 19th centuries
|Suffolk
|Howitt, William. ''[https://www.tota.world/article/919/ The Rural Life of England]''. Carey and Hart, 1841.
|England
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|Rural Life
|Rural Life
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|England & Wales
|England & Wales
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|Household, family relationships||18th Century||Tadmor, Naomi. {{FSC|2997898|item|disp=and friends in eighteenth-century ''England: household, kinship, and patronage''}}. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2007||England
|Women's History|| style="text-align:left" |before 1939|| style="text-align:left" |Davies, Margaret Llewelyn. ''No One But A Woman Knows: Stories of Motherhood Before the War''. London: Virago Press. 2012.
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|Occupations||17th Century||Few, Janet. {{FSC|2145288|item|disp=''Coffers, clysters, comfrey and coifs: the lives of our seventeenth century ancestors''}}. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2012||England
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|Daily life||18th Century||Fletcher, Ronald. {{FSC|535312|item|disp=Parkers at Saltram 1769-89: everyday life in an eighteenth-century house''}}. London, England : British Broadcasting Corporation, 1970||England
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|Social classes, language, history||19th Century||Phillipps, Kenneth C. {{FSC|463562|item|disp=and class in Victorian England''}}. Oxford, England: Basil Blackwell, 1984||England
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|Courtship, marriage, history||1485-1603||O'Hara, Diana. {{FSC|1011701|item|disp=and constraint: rethinking the making of marriage in Tudor England''}}. Manchester, England: Manchester University Press, 2000||England
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|Manners, history||16th-17th Century||Raleigh, Sir Walter; Lee, Sir Sidney;  Charles Talbut Onions. {{FSC|3000781|item|disp=''Shakespeare's England: an account of the life & manners of his age Vol. 1''}}. Salt Lake City, Utah: Digitized by FamilySearch International, 2018||England
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|History||16th-17th Century||Raleigh, Sir Walter; Lee, Sir Sidney;  Charles Talbut Onions. {{FSC|3000781|item|disp=''Shakespeare's England: an account of the life & manners of his age Vol.2''}}. Salt Lake City, Utah: Digitized by FamilySearch International, 2018||England
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|Women's history, motherhood|| style="text-align:left" |before 1939|| style="text-align:left" |Davies, Margaret Llewelyn. ''No One But A Woman Knows: Stories of Motherhood Before the War''. London: Virago Press. 2012.
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|Women's history, working-class
|Women's History
|1850-1930
|1850-1930
|Davies, Margaret Llewelyn, and Virginia Woolf. ''Life as we have known it: the voices of working-class women''. 2012. [[https://www.gutenberg.org/files/50077/50077-h/50077-h.htm 1915 edition]]
|Davies, Margaret Llewelyn, and Virginia Woolf. ''Life as we have known it: the voices of working-class women''. 2012.
|England & Wales
|England & Wales
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|Women's history, working-class
|Women's History
|1850-1950
|1850-1950
|Ward, Margaret. ''[https://www.worldcat.org/title/dictionary-of-female-occupations-womens-employment-1850-1950/oclc/745866985&referer=brief_results A Dictionary of Female Occupations: Women's Employment 1850-1950]''. Luton: Andrews UK Ltd. 2011.
|Ward, Margaret. ''[https://www.worldcat.org/title/dictionary-of-female-occupations-womens-employment-1850-1950/oclc/745866985&referer=brief_results A Dictionary of Female Occupations: Women's Employment 1850-1950]''. Luton: Andrews UK Ltd. 2011.
|England
|England
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|Social life and customs||16th Century||Mortimer, Ian .{{FSC|2138839|item|disp=time traveller's guide to Elizabethan England''}}. London, England: Bodley Head, 2012||England
|Working Class Life
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|Society, history||1066-1307||Stenton, Doris Mary (Doris Mary Parsons), Lady. {{FSC|214767|item|disp=society in the early Middle Ages, 1066-1307''}}. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Group, 1965||England
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|Social life and customs, history, manners||19th Century||Pool, Daniel. [https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=HKj8jUM630EC&oi=fnd&pg=PA13&dq=England+Social+life+and+customs&ots=fmVQZ_0xaX&sig=C-ue99uQRSZkCsWQauZkFVMf3Yk#v=onepage&q=England%20Social%20life%20and%20customs&f=false ''What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist-the Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England'']. Touchstone, 1993||England
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|Working-class
|1909-1913
|1909-1913
|Reeves, Maud Pember. ''Round about a pound a week''. London: Persephone Books. 2008.
|Reeves, Maud Pember. ''Round about a pound a week''. London: Persephone Books. 2008.
|Lambeth
|Lambeth
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|Social life and customs, history, manners||5th-11th Century||Thrupp, John. [https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=7T8LAAAAYAAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA1&dq=England+Social+life+and+customs&ots=f0Ghs8aXTC&sig=Vtqh0Te8zmODUn4Kv9V-y68MUdA#v=onepage&q=England%20Social%20life%20and%20customs&f=false ''The Anglo-Saxon Home: a history of the domestic institutions and customs of England, from the fifth to the eleventh century'']. Longman, Green, Longman, & Roberts, 1889||England
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|Folklore, customs||||Baker, Margaret. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/folklore-and-customs-of-rural-england/oclc/1175669739?referer=di&ht=edition ''Folklore and customs of rural England'']. Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1974||England
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|Social life, history||||Synge, M. B. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/short-history-of-social-life-in-england/oclc/10601218&referer=brief_results ''A short history of social life in England'']. New York, A.S. Barnes & Co. 1930||England
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|Life at sea
|Life at sea
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|Robertson, Una A. ''Mariners' Meal Times & Other Daily Details of life on board a sailing warship.'' Dundee, Scotland: The Unicorn Preservation Society. 1981. [55 pages]
|Robertson, Una A. ''Mariners' Meal Times & Other Daily Details of life on board a sailing warship.'' Dundee, Scotland: The Unicorn Preservation Society. 1981. [55 pages]
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|Life at sea
|1810-1840
|Leech, Samuel, and Richard Henry Dana. ''Six years in a man-of-war: or, A voice from the main deck : being a record of the thirty years' adventures of Samuel Leech''. Boston: J.M. Whittemore & Co. 1843.
|England
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|Mining
|Mining
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|Cornwall
|Cornwall
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|Children, mining
|Mining
|1840s
|1840's
|Great Britain (British Parliamentary Papers). ''[https://www.worldcat.org/title/childrens-employment-commission-first-report-of-the-commissioners-mines/oclc/30286804&referer=brief_results Children's Employment Commission: first report of the Commissioners, mines]''. Irish University Press. 1968.
|Great Britain (British Parliamentary Papers). ''[https://www.worldcat.org/title/childrens-employment-commission-first-report-of-the-commissioners-mines/oclc/30286804&referer=brief_results Children's Employment Commission: first report of the Commissioners, mines]''. Irish University Press. 1968.
|England, Scotland, Wales
|England, Scotland, Wales
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|London; Kent
|London; Kent
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|Occupations, women, working-class
|Occupations
|1900s
|1900s
|Matheson, Dr Rosa. "My ancestor was a Female railway clerk." ''Who Do You Think You Are?,'' September 2018, 71-73.
|Matheson, Dr Rosa. "My ancestor was a Female railway clerk." ''Who Do You Think You Are?,'' September 2018, 71-73.
|England
|England
|-
|-
|Occupations, women, working-class
|Occupations
|1940s
|1940s
|Major, Susan. ''[https://www.worldcat.org/title/female-railway-workers-in-world-war-ii/oclc/1085389145&referer=brief_results Female railway workers in World War II]''.England: Pen & Sword Transport. 2018.
|Major, Susan. ''[https://www.worldcat.org/title/female-railway-workers-in-world-war-ii/oclc/1085389145&referer=brief_results Female railway workers in World War II]''.England: Pen & Sword Transport. 2018.
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|Occupations, working-class
|Occupations
|1700s-1900s
|1700s-1900s
|Storey, Neil. "Ancestors at work: The drover." ''Family Tree Magazine,'' February 2009, 15-18.
|Storey, Neil. "Ancestors at work: The drover." ''Family Tree Magazine,'' February 2009, 15-18.
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|England
|England
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|Occupations, women
|Occupations
|1827-1842
|1827-1842
|Wright, Pip and Joy and Leonie Robinson. ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RVRi8_3ReM The Diary of a poor Suffolk woodman.]'' Cromer, England: Poppyland Publishing. 2004.
|Wright, Pip and Joy and Leonie Robinson. ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RVRi8_3ReM The Diary of a poor Suffolk woodman.]'' Cromer, England: Poppyland Publishing. 2004.
|Suffolk
|Suffolk
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|Diary, women
|Diary
|1833-1861
|1833-1861
|Darby, Adelaide, Rachel Labouchere, and Emyr Thomas. ''Adelaide Darby of Coalbrookdale: her private journal from 1833-1861''. York: Sessions Book Trust in association with Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust. 2004.
|Darby, Adelaide, Rachel Labouchere, and Emyr Thomas. ''Adelaide Darby of Coalbrookdale: her private journal from 1833-1861''. York: Sessions Book Trust in association with Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust. 2004.
|Shropshire
|Shropshire
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|Social life and customs, industry, manners||1485-1603||Salzman, L. F. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/england-in-tudor-times-an-account-of-its-social-life-and-industries/oclc/13848646&referer=brief_results ''England in Tudor times: an account of its social life and industries'']. Bath: C. Chivers, 1972||England
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|Marriage customs, folklore
|18th and 19th centuries
|Thiselton-Dyer, T. F. ''[https://www.tota.world/article/3779/ Domestic Folk-Lore].'' Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., 1881.
|England, Scotland, and Wales
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|Photos
|Photos
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|[https://www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/ National Science and Media Museum]: Peter Henry Emerson's Norfolk country folk.
|[https://www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/ National Science and Media Museum]: Peter Henry Emerson's Norfolk country folk.
|Norfolk
|Norfolk
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|Social life and customs, history, manners||||Hall, H. R. Wilton. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/social-life-in-england-through-the-centuries/oclc/9976300&referer=brief_results ''Social life in England through the centuries'']. London, Glasgow, Blackie and Son, 1927||England
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|Photos
|Photos
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|[https://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/ Britian from Above]. Aerial photography.
|[https://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/ Britian from Above]. Aerial photography.
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|Parish life
|parish life
|1803-1834
|1803-1834
|Skinner, John, and Howard Coombs. ''[https://www.worldcat.org/title/journal-of-a-somerset-rector-1803-1834/oclc/634885000&referer=brief_results Journal of a Somerset rector: 1803-1834]''. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Pr. 1985.
|Skinner, John, and Howard Coombs. ''[https://www.worldcat.org/title/journal-of-a-somerset-rector-1803-1834/oclc/634885000&referer=brief_results Journal of a Somerset rector: 1803-1834]''. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Pr. 1985.
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|War prisoners
|war prisoners
|1797-1814
|1797-1814
|Williams, Teresa. "Prisoners of war: POWs at Norman Cross." ''Practical Family History,'' September 2004, 48-51.
|Williams, Teresa. "Prisoners of war: POWs at Norman Cross." ''Practical Family History,'' September 2004, 48-51.
|England
|England
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|War prisoners
|war prisoners
|1811-1814
|1811-1814
|Doisy de Villargennes, Adelbert J. ''[https://archive.org/details/reminiscencesofa00deviiala/page/74 Reminiscences of army life under Napoleon Bonaparte]''. Cincinnati: R. Clarke. 1884.
|Doisy de Villargennes, Adelbert J. ''[https://archive.org/details/reminiscencesofa00deviiala/page/74 Reminiscences of army life under Napoleon Bonaparte]''. Cincinnati: R. Clarke. 1884.
|England, Scotland
|England, Scotland
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|Convicts
|convicts
|1823-1863
|1823-1863
|Mortimer, Brenda. "Prisoners in paradise." ''Ancestors,'' February 2009, 40-44.
|Mortimer, Brenda. "Prisoners in paradise." ''Ancestors,'' February 2009, 40-44.
|England, Bermuda
|England, Bermuda
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|Convicts
|convicts
|1860s
|1860s
|Account of Life on the Convict Hulks. William Sydes, alias Jones, One of the Prisoners. Bermuda Historical Quarterly, 8 (1951): 28-39.
|Account of Life on the Convict Hulks. William Sydes, alias Jones, One of the Prisoners. Bermuda Historical Quarterly, 8 (1951): 28-39.
|England, Bermuda
|England, Bermuda
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|Salt workers
|salt workers
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|Wilkes, Sue. "The Salt Workers of Cheshire." ''Who Do You Think You Are?,'' January 2012, 73-75.
|Wilkes, Sue. "The Salt Workers of Cheshire." ''Who Do You Think You Are?,'' January 2012, 73-75.
|Cheshire
|Cheshire
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|History, religion, Pilgrims
|1600s
|Carpenter, Edmund J. ''[https://www.tota.world/article/1835/ The Mayflower Pilgrims].'' The Abingdon Press, 1918.
|Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, and Lincolnshire
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|Army pensioners
|Army pensioners
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|England
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|Teachers
|teachers
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|Wilkes, Sue. "Ancestors At Work: Teachers." ''Who Do You Think You Are?,'' November 2018, 59-61.
|Wilkes, Sue. "Ancestors At Work: Teachers." ''Who Do You Think You Are?,'' November 2018, 59-61.
|England
|England
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|House servants
|house servants
|19th century
|19th century
|Hatfield, Emma. "Upstairs Downstairs." ''Practical Family History,'' December 2009, 12-16.
|Hatfield, Emma. "Upstairs Downstairs." ''Practical Family History,'' December 2009, 12-16.
|England
|England
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|Cotton mill workers
|cotton mill workers
|1780-1921
|1780-1921
|Burlison, Robert. "When Cotton Was King." ''Practical Family History,'' October 2009, 12-16.
|Burlison, Robert. "When Cotton Was King." ''Practical Family History,'' October 2009, 12-16.
|England
|England
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|Holidays, children
|hat makers
|Middle Ages to present
|Dier, J.C''. The Children’s Book of Christmas''. The MacMillan Company, 1911.
|England
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|Hat makers
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|Powling, Margaret. "If You Want to Get Ahead... " ''Ancestors,'' January 2009, 27-24.
|Powling, Margaret. "If You Want to Get Ahead... " ''Ancestors,'' January 2009, 27-24.
|England
|England
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|Rural life
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|1837-1901
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|[[Rural Life in Victorian England]]
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Topic Time frame Resource Location
Rural Life 1759-1802 Woodforde, James. A country parson: James Woodforde's diary, 1759-1802. Oxford [Oxfordshire]: Oxford University Press. 1985. Norfolk
Rural Life 1660-1700 Gough, Richard. History of Myddle. New York: Dorset Press. 1986. Shropshire
Rural Life 1895-1955 Evans, George Ewart. Ask The Fellows Who Cut The Hay. London: Faber and Faber. 1977. Suffolk
Rural Life 1807-1823 Jones, Joyce. Seedtime & Harvest: The diary of an Essex farmer William Barnard of Harlowbury 1807-23. Chelmsford, England: Essex Record Office. 1992. Essex
Rural Life 1770-1980 Armstrong, Alan. Farmworkers in England and Wales: a social and economic history, 1770-1980. Ames: Iowa State University Press. 1988. England & Wales
Women's History before 1939 Davies, Margaret Llewelyn. No One But A Woman Knows: Stories of Motherhood Before the War. London: Virago Press. 2012.
Women's History 1850-1930 Davies, Margaret Llewelyn, and Virginia Woolf. Life as we have known it: the voices of working-class women. 2012. England & Wales
Women's History 1850-1950 Ward, Margaret. A Dictionary of Female Occupations: Women's Employment 1850-1950. Luton: Andrews UK Ltd. 2011. England
Working Class Life 1909-1913 Reeves, Maud Pember. Round about a pound a week. London: Persephone Books. 2008. Lambeth
Life at sea 1793-1815 King, Dean and John B. Hattendorf, editors. Every Man Will Do His Duty: An Anthology of Firsthand Accounts From The Age Of Nelson 1793-1815. New York: Henry Holt and Company, Inc. 1997.
Life at sea Robertson, Una A. Mariners' Meal Times & Other Daily Details of life on board a sailing warship. Dundee, Scotland: The Unicorn Preservation Society. 1981. [55 pages]
Mining Jenkin, A. K. Hamilton. The Cornish miner: an account of his life above and underground from early times. Newton Abbot: David & Charles Reprints. 1972. [351 pages] Cornwall
Mining 1840's Great Britain (British Parliamentary Papers). Children's Employment Commission: first report of the Commissioners, mines. Irish University Press. 1968. England, Scotland, Wales
Grave robbers 1811-1812 Bailey, James Blake. The Diary of a Resurrectionist, 1811-1812. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/32614/32614-h/32614-h.htm London
Military Voices of Liberation: Capturing the Memories of the "Greatest Generation". Commonwealth War Graves Commission https://www.cwgc.org/
Occupations Wilkes, Sue. Ancestors At Work: Teachers. BBC who do you think you are? magazine. London: BBC Worldwide Ltd. Issue 145 November 2018. pp 59-61. England
Occupations 1700-1900 Foy, Karen. "Brewer's gold." Family History Monthly, September 2007, 30-32. London; Kent
Occupations 1900s Matheson, Dr Rosa. "My ancestor was a Female railway clerk." Who Do You Think You Are?, September 2018, 71-73. England
Occupations 1940s Major, Susan. Female railway workers in World War II.England: Pen & Sword Transport. 2018.
Occupations 1700s-1900s Storey, Neil. "Ancestors at work: The drover." Family Tree Magazine, February 2009, 15-18. England; Wales
Every day life 1937-1950s Mass Observation Archive England
Occupations 1827-1842 Wright, Pip and Joy and Leonie Robinson. The Diary of a poor Suffolk woodman. Cromer, England: Poppyland Publishing. 2004. Suffolk
Diary 1833-1861 Darby, Adelaide, Rachel Labouchere, and Emyr Thomas. Adelaide Darby of Coalbrookdale: her private journal from 1833-1861. York: Sessions Book Trust in association with Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust. 2004. Shropshire
Photos National Science and Media Museum: Frank Meadow Sutcliffe's Whitby workers.
Photos National Science and Media Museum: Peter Henry Emerson's Norfolk country folk. Norfolk
Photos 1919-2006 Britian from Above. Aerial photography.
parish life 1803-1834 Skinner, John, and Howard Coombs. Journal of a Somerset rector: 1803-1834. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Pr. 1985.
war prisoners 1797-1814 Williams, Teresa. "Prisoners of war: POWs at Norman Cross." Practical Family History, September 2004, 48-51. England
war prisoners 1811-1814 Doisy de Villargennes, Adelbert J. Reminiscences of army life under Napoleon Bonaparte. Cincinnati: R. Clarke. 1884. England, Scotland
convicts 1823-1863 Mortimer, Brenda. "Prisoners in paradise." Ancestors, February 2009, 40-44. England, Bermuda
convicts 1860s Account of Life on the Convict Hulks. William Sydes, alias Jones, One of the Prisoners. Bermuda Historical Quarterly, 8 (1951): 28-39. England, Bermuda
salt workers Wilkes, Sue. "The Salt Workers of Cheshire." Who Do You Think You Are?, January 2012, 73-75. Cheshire
Army pensioners 1790 Hore, Liz. "Family or Country: Chelsea out-pensioners in the late-eighteenth century." Ancestors, May 2003, 44-49. England
teachers Wilkes, Sue. "Ancestors At Work: Teachers." Who Do You Think You Are?, November 2018, 59-61. England
house servants 19th century Hatfield, Emma. "Upstairs Downstairs." Practical Family History, December 2009, 12-16. England
cotton mill workers 1780-1921 Burlison, Robert. "When Cotton Was King." Practical Family History, October 2009, 12-16. England
hat makers Powling, Margaret. "If You Want to Get Ahead... " Ancestors, January 2009, 27-24. England
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