| 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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