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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
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
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