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Stockport in the Great War

Interest in the theft of cucumbers initially took precedence over news that war had been declared, but Stockport rallied quickly. Wakes week was cancelled, the local 6th Battalion ...


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Lancaster in the Great War

Although Lancaster was the ancient County town, it had a population of only 40,000 in 1914. Of these, it is thought that some 5,000 men saw war service between 1914-18, and over 1, ...


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Ludlow in the Great War

Wars affect everyone. Whether they are fought on the battlefields or on the home front, by the armed forces or civilians, sacrifices have to be made, and everyone suffers one way o ...


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Tracing Your Edinburgh Ancestors

Edinburgh has been the capital of Scotland for the last 500 years and more. The ‘Athens of the North’ is the center of Scottish banking, medicine, architecture, law and publishing. ...


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Yorkshire Women at War

In Yorkshire, 2015 marks the centenary of the founding of the first Land Girl Hostel, near Boroughbridge, by Lady Margery Lawson Tancred. Yorkshire Women at War deals with the Wome ...


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Wayward Women

We most often think of the Victorian female offender in her most archetypal and stereotypical roles; the polite lady shoplifter, stowing all manner of valuables beneath her volumin ...


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Tracing Your Northern Irish Ancestors - Second Edition

The second edition of Tracing Your Northern Irish Ancestors is an expert introduction for the family historian to the wealth of material available to researchers in archives throug ...


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Tracing Your Seafaring Ancestors

Photographs of your seafaring ancestors may tell you more about their lives than you realize, and Simon Wills’s helpful and practical guide shows you how to identify and interpret ...


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Tracing Your Ancestors Through Local History Records

Family history should reveal more than facts and dates, lists of names and places – it should bring ancestors alive in the context of their times and the surroundings they knew – a ...


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Fix Bayonets!

The bayonet is an essential item of a soldier's kit even on today's modern hi-tech battlefield. This work examines the origins of this humble weapon and the 'cult of the bayonet' a ...


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Women of the 1960s

This book gives a new perspective on the life of women in the 1960s, contrary to the widely accepted vision of a Swinging Sixties full of Sex, Drugs and Rock ’n’ Roll. It was certa ...


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Victorian Convicts

What was life like in the Victorian underworld – who were the criminals, what crimes did they commit, how did they come to a criminal career, and what happened to them after they w ...


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South Devon in the Great War

South Devon in the Great War provides the first definitive history of events in this part of Devon during the First World War, with more than fifty pictures, some unpublished for 1 ...


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In Search of Our Ancient Ancestors

What a fine long pedigree you have given the human race. – Charles Darwin to Charles Lyell, 1863.How is the Royal Family descended from fish? How distantly are we related to dinosa ...


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The Justice Women

The first policewomen were established during the Great War, but with no powers of arrest; the first women lawyers did not practise until the early twentieth century, and despite t ...


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Tracing Your Leeds Ancestors

Explore the lives of your ancestors in the 'city of 1,000 trades' in this family and local history guide, dedicated to the city of Leeds. Learn how to find out more about the stree ...


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Family First

This book is a blend of social history and family history covering the years 1800-1950. It is structured around the relationships which fascinate those interested in finding out mo ...


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The Family History Web Directory

Jonathan Scott's Family History Web Directory is an information-packed reference guide that distils the best of the internet into one easy-to-use format. Themed sections cover diff ...


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Tracing your Great War Ancestors: The Somme

If you want to find out about an ancestor who served on the Somme during the First World War – during the Battle of the Somme in 1916 or at any time during the fighting in this sec ...


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Tammikuun ensimmäinen 1900

On tammikuu ja 1900-luvun ensimmäinen päivä Pariisissa. Päivämäärä ei ole satunnainen, vaan merkittävä monella tapaa. Se on keskikohta La Belle Époquelle, ihanalle kaudelle. Kaudel ...


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Keskiajan hirviöt

Lohikäärmeitä, jättiläisiä, seireenejä ja meripetoja - kuvastoa keskiajasta on vaikea mieltää ilman kammottavia hirviöitä. Silti todelliset keskiajan hirviöt olivat taruakin ihmeel ...


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Knights Templar: Lost Secrets Revealed 

Historians find the Middle Ages a period shrouded in mystery. On the one hand, sources speak of greedy kings and corrupt popes who flourished during a time of widespread hunger, di ...


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Fånga ljuset

Fotografen Hedda drivs av drömmen om konstnärlig frihet och kvinnors rätt till medbestämmande i samhället. Hon har egen ateljé i Helsingborg men får även uppdrag att dokumentera pa ...


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Tapetglädje : På väggarna förr och nu

Tänk på väggarna först, för det är de som förvandlar ett hus till ett hem, sa den store William Morris. Ja, det sitter i väggarna, men också på väggarna och det är dags för dessa a ...


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Boken om te

Den klassiska japanska boken om tekonsten I sin klassiska bok om tekonsten ger Okakura Kakuzo en poetisk inblick i österländsk historia, i hur chad (teets väg) uppstod ur zenbudd ...