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Topic	Time frame	Resource	Location
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
Women's History	before 1939	Davies, Margaret Llewelyn. No One But A Woman Knows: Stories of Motherhood Before the War. London: Virago Press. 2012.
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.
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