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Topic	Time period	Resource	Locations Covered
Social life and customs, History	1150-1400	Bennettm, H.S. Life on the English manor: a study of peasant conditions, 1150-1400. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1971	England
Social life and customs		Levine, Herbert M. and Owen, Dolores B. An American guide to British social science resources. Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow Press, 1976 England
Social life and customs, Travel	19th Century	Harper, Charles G. The Bath road: history, fashion, & frivolity on an old highway. Salt Lake City, Utah : Digitized by FamilySearch International 2014	England
Social life and customs, Costumes	14th to 19th Century	Cunnington, Phillis and Buck, Anne. Children's costume in England from the fourteenth to the end of the nineteenth century. London, England: A. & C. Black, 1978	England
Social life and customs, Church history	1770-1970	Norman, Edward Robert. Church and society in England, 1770-1970: a historical study. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1976	England
Customs and rites	19th Century	Cunnington, Phillis and Lucas, Catherine. Costume for births, marriages and deaths. London, England: A. & C. Black, 1978	England
Social life and customs, History		Lofts, Norah. Domestic life in England. London, England: George Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Ltd, 1976	England
Social life and customs, Occupations	18th Century	Hecht, J. Jean. The domestic servant in eighteenth-century England. London, England: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980	England
Social life and customs, History	19th-20th Century	Hey, David. How our ancestors lived: a history of life a hundred years ago. Kew, England: National Archives (England), 2002	England, Wales
Social life and customs, History, Fashion	19th Century	Gernsheim, Alison. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/2808569?availability=Richland%20Washington%20Family%20History%20Center Victorian & Edwardian fashion : a photographic survey New York, New York : Dover, 1981	England
Social life and customs, History, Social Classes	1774-1858	Marjorie Morgan https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/704586?availability=Family%20History%20Library Manners, morals and class in England, 1774-1858]. New York, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994	England
Social life and customs, Poorhouses	19th Century	Higgs, Michelle. Life in the Victorian & Edwardian workhouse. Stroud, England : Tempus Pub., 2007	England
Social life and customs, Funeral rites	1700-1850	edited by Margaret Cox https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1350039?availability=Family%20History%20Library Grave concerns : death and burial in England 1700-1850 York, England : Council for British Archaeology, 1998	England
Social life and customs, Women	19th Century	Mary Lyndon Shanley https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1834754?availability=Family%20History%20Library Feminism, marriage and the law in Victorian England Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1989	England
Social life and customs	18th Century	Naomi Tadmor https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/2997898?availability=Family%20History%20Library Family and friends in eighteenth-century England : household, kinship, and patronage Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press 2007	England
Social life and customs	17th Century	Janet Few https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/2145288?availability=Family%20History%20Library Coffers, clysters, comfrey and coifs : the lives of our seventeenth century ancestors Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press 2012	England
Social life and customs	18th Century	Ronald Fletcher https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/535312?availability=Family%20History%20Library The Parkers at Saltram 1769-89 : everyday life in an eighteenth-century house London, England : British Broadcasting Corporation, 1970	England
Social life and customs, Social classes, History	19th Century	Kenneth C. Phillipps https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/463562?availability=Family%20History%20Library Language and class in Victorian England Oxford, England : Basil Blackwell, 1984	England
Social life and customs, History	1485-1603	Diana O'Hara https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1011701?availability=Family%20History%20Library Courtship and constraint : rethinking the making of marriage in Tudor England Manchester, England : Manchester University Press, 2000	England
Social life and customs, History	16th-17th Century	Sir Wlater Raleigh, Sir Sidney Lee, Charles Talbut Onions https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/3000781 Shakespeare's England : an account of the life & manners of his age Vol. 1 Salt Lake City, Utah : Digitized by FamilySearch International 2018	England
Social life and customs, History	16th-17th Century	Sir Wlater Raleigh, Sir Sidney Lee, Charles Talbut Onions https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/3000781 Shakespeare's England : an account of the life & manners of his age Vol.2 Salt Lake City, Utah : Digitized by FamilySearch International 2018	England
Social life and customs	16th Century	Ian Mortimer https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/2138839?availability=Family%20History%20Library The time traveller's guide to Elizabethan England London, England : Bodley Head, 2012	England
Social life and customs, History	1066-1307	Stenton, Doris Mary (Doris Mary Parsons), Lady https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/214767?availability=Family%20History%20Library English society in the early Middle Ages, 1066-1307 Harmondsworth, England : Penguin Group, 1965	England
Social life and customs, History, Manners	19th Century	Daniel Pool 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
Social life and customs, History, Manners	5th-11th Century	John Thrupp 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
Social life and customs, History, Manners		Margaret Baker 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
Social life and customs, History, Manners		M B Synge 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
Social life and customs, History, Manners	1485-1603	L F Salzman 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
Social life and customs, History, Manners		H R Wilton Hall 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