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*[https://www.1900s.org.uk/index.htm Life in 1900s UK] - includes photos and descriptions of places/items, etc. in 1900s UK<Br> | *[https://www.1900s.org.uk/index.htm Life in 1900s UK] - includes photos and descriptions of places/items, etc. in 1900s UK<Br> | ||
*[https://www.tota.world/culture/english/#overview English Culture] - TOTA, gives general information about English Culture | |||
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- Life in 1900s UK - includes photos and descriptions of places/items, etc. in 1900s UK
- English Culture - TOTA, gives general information about English Culture
| 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 |
| 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. [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 |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
| 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 |