| Topic |
Time frame |
Resource
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Location
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| Poor
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1851
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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.
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London
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| Paupers
|
1880s
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Indoor paupers: life inside a London workhouse. [no publication place]: the Workhouse Press. 2013.
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London
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| Army
|
1807-1814
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Wheatley, Edmund. The Wheatley diary. London: Longmans, Green & Co. 1964.
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Europe
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| 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.
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Europe
|
| Occupations
|
1950s
|
Cotterill, Edith. Nurse on call. London: Ebury Press. 2010.
|
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 |
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
|
| Marriage customs
|
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
|
| 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
|
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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