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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. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/313574?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''Life 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. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/375910?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''An 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. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/2737191 ''The 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. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/132641?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''Children's 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. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/346344?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''Church 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. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/132809?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''Costume for births, marriages and deaths'']. London, England: A. & C. Black, 1978||England
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|Domestic life||||Lofts, Norah. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/22525?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''Domestic life in England'']. London, England: George Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Ltd, 1976||England
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|Occupations, servants||18th Century||Hecht, J. Jean. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/108279?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''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. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1193441?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''How 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. [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
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|Manners, morlas, social classes||1774-1858||Morgan, Marjorie. [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
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|Poor
|Poor
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|''Indoor paupers: life inside a London workhouse''. [no publication place]: the Workhouse Press. 2013.
|''Indoor paupers: life inside a London workhouse''. [no publication place]: the Workhouse Press. 2013.
|London
|London
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|Poorhouses||19th Century||Higgs, Michelle. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1416832?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''Life in the Victorian & Edwardian workhouse'']. Stroud, England : Tempus Pub., 2007||England
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|Army
|Army
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|Schaumann, August Ludolf Friedrich, and Bernard Cornwell. ''On the road with Wellington: diary of a war commissary in the Peninsular Campaign''. 2015.
|Schaumann, August Ludolf Friedrich, and Bernard Cornwell. ''On the road with Wellington: diary of a war commissary in the Peninsular Campaign''. 2015.
|Europe
|Europe
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|Funeral rites, death/burial customs||1700-1850||edited by Cox, Margaret.  [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
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|Occupations
|Occupations
|1950s
|1950s
|Cotterill, Edith. ''Nurse on call''. London: Ebury Press. 2010.
|Cotterill, Edith. ''Nurse on call''. London: Ebury Press. 2010.
|England
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|Women, marriage||19th Century||Shanley, Mary Lyndon. [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
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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
|England
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|Shropshire
|Shropshire
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|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.
|Rural Life
|Suffolk
|18th and 19th centuries
|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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|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.
|Household, family relationships||18th Century||Tadmor, Naomi. [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
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|Occupations||17th Century||Few, Janet. [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
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|Daily life||18th Century||Fletcher, Ronald. [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
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|Social classes, language, history||19th Century||Phillipps, Kenneth C. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/463562?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''Language and class in Victorian England'']. Oxford, England: Basil Blackwell, 1984||England
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|Courtship, marriage, history||1485-1603||O'Hara, Diana. [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
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|Manners, history||16th-17th Century||Raleigh, Sir Walter; Lee, Sir Sidney;  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
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|History||16th-17th Century||Raleigh, Sir Walter; Lee, Sir Sidney;  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
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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
|Women's history, working-class
|1850-1930
|1850-1930
|Davies, Margaret Llewelyn, and Virginia Woolf. ''Life as we have known it: the voices of working-class women''. 2012. [[http://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. [[https://www.gutenberg.org/files/50077/50077-h/50077-h.htm 1915 edition]]
|England & Wales
|England & Wales
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|Women's History
|Women's history, working-class
|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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|Working Class Life
|Social life and customs||16th Century||Mortimer, Ian .[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
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|Society, 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
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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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|Cornwall
|Cornwall
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|Mining
|Children, mining
|1840's
|1840s
|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
|Occupations, women, working-class
|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
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|Occupations
|Occupations, women, working-class
|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
|Occupations, working-class
|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
|Occupations, women
|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
|Diary, women
|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
|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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|hat makers
|Holidays, children
|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.
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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
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