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Topic	Time period	Resource	Locations Covered
Occupations	1900s	Randell Arthur R. Fenland Railwayman. London: Routledge & K. Paul. 1968.	East Anglia
Occupations, servants	1920s	Powell Margaret. Tales from below Stairs: The Bestselling Memoirs of a 1920s Kitchen Maid. London: Sidgwick & Jackson. 2013	England
History, manor life, peasants	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 lscience		Levine, Herbert M. and Owen, Dolores B. An American guide to British social science resources. Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow Press, 1976	England
Travel, fashion, history, amusement	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
Costumes/dress	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
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
Domestic life		Lofts, Norah. Domestic life in England. London, England: George Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Ltd, 1976	England
Occupations, servants	18th Century	Hecht, J. Jean. The domestic servant in eighteenth-century England. London, England: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980	England
Daily life, 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
Fashion	19th Century	Gernsheim, Alison. Victorian & Edwardian fashion: a photographic survey. New York, New York : Dover, 1981	England
Manners, morlas, social classes	1774-1858	Morgan, Marjorie. Manners, morals and class in England, 1774-1858. New York, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994	England
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
Poorhouses	19th Century	Higgs, Michelle. Life in the Victorian & Edwardian workhouse. Stroud, England : Tempus Pub., 2007	England
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
Funeral rites, death/burial customs	1700-1850	edited by Cox, Margaret. Grave concerns: death and burial in England 1700-1850. York, England: Council for British Archaeology, 1998	England
Occupations	1950s	Cotterill, Edith. Nurse on call. London: Ebury Press. 2010.	England
Women, marriage	19th Century	Shanley, Mary Lyndon. Feminism, marriage and the law in Victorian England. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1989	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	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
Household, family relationships	18th Century	Tadmor, Naomi. Family and friends in eighteenth-century England: household, kinship, and patronage. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2007	England
Occupations	17th Century	Few, Janet. Coffers, clysters, comfrey and coifs: the lives of our seventeenth century ancestors. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2012	England
Daily life	18th Century	Fletcher, Ronald. The Parkers at Saltram 1769-89: everyday life in an eighteenth-century house. London, England : British Broadcasting Corporation, 1970	England
Social classes, language, history	19th Century	Phillipps, Kenneth C. Language and class in Victorian England. Oxford, England: Basil Blackwell, 1984	England
Courtship, marriage, history	1485-1603	O'Hara, Diana. Courtship and constraint: rethinking the making of marriage in Tudor England. Manchester, England: Manchester University Press, 2000	England
Manners, history	16th-17th Century	Raleigh, Sir Walter; Lee, Sir Sidney; Charles Talbut Onions. Shakespeare's England: an account of the life & manners of his age Vol. 1. Salt Lake City, Utah: Digitized by FamilySearch International, 2018	England
History	16th-17th Century	Raleigh, Sir Walter; Lee, Sir Sidney; Charles Talbut Onions. Shakespeare's England: an account of the life & manners of his age Vol.2. Salt Lake City, Utah: Digitized by FamilySearch International, 2018	England
Women's history, motherhood	before 1939	Davies, Margaret Llewelyn. No One But A Woman Knows: Stories of Motherhood Before the War. London: Virago Press. 2012.
Women's history, working-class	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, working-class	1850-1950	Ward, Margaret. A Dictionary of Female Occupations: Women's Employment 1850-1950. Luton: Andrews UK Ltd. 2011.	England
Social life and customs	16th Century	Mortimer, Ian . The time traveller's guide to Elizabethan England. London, England: Bodley Head, 2012	England
Society, history	1066-1307	Stenton, Doris Mary (Doris Mary Parsons), Lady. English society in the early Middle Ages, 1066-1307. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Group, 1965	England
Social life and customs, history, manners	19th Century	Pool, Daniel. 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
Working-class	1909-1913	Reeves, Maud Pember. Round about a pound a week. London: Persephone Books. 2008.	Lambeth
Social life and customs, history, manners	5th-11th Century	Thrupp, John. 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
Folklore, customs		Baker, Margaret. Folklore and customs of rural England. Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1974	England
Social life, history		Synge, M. B. A short history of social life in England. New York, A.S. Barnes & Co. 1930	England
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
Children, mining	1840s	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, women, working-class	1900s	Matheson, Dr Rosa. "My ancestor was a Female railway clerk." Who Do You Think You Are?, September 2018, 71-73.	England
Occupations, women, working-class	1940s	Major, Susan. Female railway workers in World War II.England: Pen & Sword Transport. 2018.
Occupations, working-class	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, women	1827-1842	Wright, Pip and Joy and Leonie Robinson. The Diary of a poor Suffolk woodman. Cromer, England: Poppyland Publishing. 2004.	Suffolk
Diary, women	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
Social life and customs, industry, manners	1485-1603	Salzman, L. F. England in Tudor times: an account of its social life and industries. Bath: C. Chivers, 1972	England
Marriage customs, folklore	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
Social life and customs, history, manners		Hall, H. R. Wilton. Social life in England through the centuries. London, Glasgow, Blackie and Son, 1927	England
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, children	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