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Topic	Time frame	Resource	Location
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 The London Street Folk. London: George Woodfall and Son. 1851.	London
Paupers	1880s	Indoor paupers: life inside a London workhouse. [no publication place]: the Workhouse Press. 2013.	London
Army	1807-1814	Wheatley, Edmund. The Wheatley diary. London: Longmans, Green & Co. 1964.	Europe
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
Occupations	1950s	Cotterill, Edith. Nurse on call. London: Ebury Press. 2010.	England
Occupations, birth customs	Middle ages to 20th century	Van Blarcom, Carolyn Conant. 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
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	18th and 19th centuries	Howitt, William. The Rural Life of England. Carey and Hart, 1841.	England
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. [1915 edition]	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]
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
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
Marriage customs	18th and 19th centuries	Thiselton-Dyer, T. F. Domestic Folk-Lore. Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., 1881.	England, Scotland, and Wales
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
History, religion, Pilgrims	1600s	Carpenter, Edmund J. The Mayflower Pilgrims. The Abingdon Press, 1918.	Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, and Lincolnshire
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
Holidays	Middle Ages to present	Dier, J.C. The Children’s Book of Christmas. The MacMillan Company, 1911.	England
hat makers		Powling, Margaret. "If You Want to Get Ahead... " Ancestors, January 2009, 27-24.	England
Rural life	1837-1901	Rural Life in Victorian England	England