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Family History Made Easy
Discover more about your ancestors' lives with Family History Made Easy, a fantastic new publication from the publishers of Family Tree.
Family History Made Easy is packed with excellent articles, essential websites and useful tips to get you started with tracing your family tree. From census records, birth, marriage and death indexes and military documents, to tips on dating old photographs, reading old handwriting and tracing your trickier relatives, this ultimate guide provides a treasure-trove of family history information.
Included with Family History Made Easy is a DVD loaded with historic records covering England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland and a list of more than 301 must-view web links to the best family history websites. Also included is free software and printable family charts.

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British Architectural Styles An Easy Reference Guide
Here is a compact and useful guide, filled with detailed drawings, to help put a date to the variety of buildings we see around us. It covers an immense range of structures and styles from 1500 to 1950. In addition, there is a glossary of architectural terms and a historical time chart. The book will prove an invaluable companion whether visiting grand houses open to the public or just simply strolling around the streets of villages, towns and cities.

Trevor Yorke

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Cumbria Within Living Memory
A glimpse of what life was like in Cumbria during the first half of the 20th century. Compiled from personal memories sent in by W.I. members from all over the county. Illustrated.

Cumbria Federation of Women's Institutes

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English Churches Explained
The local church is a familiar landmark in every town, city and village. The story of its past is the story of the people for whom, down the centuries, it was the centre of the community. But how many people actually understand the reason for it being built in a particular place, how it was constructed, or why it was decorated in such a style? Discovering the information can sometimes be difficult but this new book places the period styles of church fabric and decoration into an easy to read form that is packed with photographs, pictures and diagrams. Trevor Yorke's simple but graphic approach will be welcomed by all for whom a visit to a church is also a brief journey through time itself.

Trevor Yorke

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English Place-Names Explained
A comprehensive study of English place-names - their linguistic roots, historical connections and meanings. Includes a county-by-county guide to the main place-names and their origins.

Charles Whynne-Hammond

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Gravestones, Tombs and Memorials
If you explore our churchyards and cemeteries today you will be astonished at how much you can discover, not only about the people who are buried there and their standing in the local community, but also about the history of this area.

Trevor Yorke explains burial practices down the ages and details the development of the churchard and the cemetary. He looks at the period styles of gravestones, tombs and memorials and the shapes and features that help to date them. Using a wide range of photographs and line illustrations, he examines the carvings and symbols that can be found and offers clues to their possible meanings.

Trevor Yorke

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Graveyard London
Hundreds of generations of Londoners lie beneath the city; hidden and forgotten, until now. Their burial grounds have been developed, built upon, grassed over and razed from history. Many have been disturbed by railways, tunnels and modern buildings. Plague and burial pits still come to light. Robert Bard has found and described many of these forgotten places. Some became public gardens; others were covered and forgotten. The work emphasizes the local history of graveyards, touches on the customs and logistics of burial, and the squalor of many burial grounds in the 18th and 19th centuries and the reforms.

Robert Bard

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Memories of Lincolnshire Farming
The farmers of Lincolnshire are an independent-minded hardworking group. Over the centuries they have altered the county to fit their needs by cutting down forests, draining bogs, taming rivers and pushing back the sea to create a rich and diverse agricultural landscape. Before the memories are lost forever, author Alan Stennett has taken the time to talk to the local people who make their living from the land. He examines the changes that have taken place over the last century and, using first-hand accounts and a fascinating collection of contemporary photographs, he tells the story of farming life in Lincolnshire - the conditions, the work, the people and the humour.

Alan Stennett

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Memories of the Cornish Fishing Industry
Around the wild and windswept Cornish coast fishing has been a way of life for centuries. Sons have followed fathers and grandfathers in the family boats, setting out from ports such as Polperro, Mevagissey, Mousehole, Newlyn, St Ives, Port Isaac and Looe to brave the stormy Atlantic Ocean to earn their living. Those who fished these waters faced, and still face, potential danger every time they put to sea. Before the memories are lost forever, author Sheila Bird has taken the time to talk to the fishermen of Cornwall. Using first-hand accounts and a fascinating collection of photographs, she tells their story; the conditions, the work, the people and the humour.

Sheila Bird

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Memories of the Derbyshire Coalfields
In its heyday in the early 1900s, Derbyshire's 176 pits produced over 16m tons of coal a year and, from some mines, iron and clay as well. Markham in the north-east of the county, with ten working faces, as compared with the usual 2 or 3, was the biggest colliery in Europe. For this book, David Bell who lives on the Derbyshire border, has visited and interviewed many local ex-miners in an effort to build up a true picture of what life was like, both at work and at play. The transition for a boy of 15 from school to mine was a great shock although he was probably joining his father and older brothers. Mining was not just a job, but a way of life. The work was hard and the conditions were always dangerous. Comradeship was everything and nowhere was this more tested than during the 1984/5 miners strike, fought in an effort to stave off the threat of mass pit closures. The book includes many old photographs, some borrowed from private collections, maps of pit areas, a chart of each colliery's life span and a list of the numbers each one employed.

David Bell

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Memories of the East Anglian Fishing Industry
The East Anglian herring fishing industry can trace its roots back to before the Norman's arrived in 1066. The main ports, and great rivals were Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft. This continued when local entrepreneur Samuel Morton Peto built a new fish market in Lowestoft to connect with main railways in 1882. It was then possible to land fish one morning and have the catch available in the fish market of Manchester or London by the next.

From about the 1860s right up to the 1960s, Scottish fishermen, accompanied by their wives, sisters and girlfriends would come on an annual basis to fish, gut and pack herring during the season - September to November each year. By 1910 Lowestoft harbour was so packed with sailing drifters that it was possible to cross the harbour without getting your feet wet. Sadly all this prosperity was not to last. By the 1990s for a combination of reasons - overfishing, government red tape and the high cost of fuel - East Anglia's fishing industry was all but dead. But the memories live on.

In this book, Ian Robb who lives in Lowestoft and joined the local fishing fleet in 1962, draws together the stories of those who can remember, providing a lasting record for generations to come.

Ian Robb

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Memories of the Lancashire Aircraft Industry
The Blackpool Aviation week in 1909 marked the beginning. Early pioneers performed a number of flying feats which were rewarded with prizes given by the Daily Mail and the then Manchester Guardian. After this Henry Greg Melly set up a flying school on Freshfield beach at Formby and A V Roe founded his AVRO company. Meanwhile, English Electric decided to open up an aircraft building firm based at Samlesbury near Preston. They produced the Hampden and Halifax bombers used during the Second World War. Ron Freethy's well researched book also includes many first-hand accounts provided by local people from their own memories and those of their parents. These bring the story alive and, combined with many photographs, create a lasting record of the county's place in British aviation history.

Ron Freethy

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Memories of the Lancashire Cotton Mills
Lancashire was once the Cotton Capital of the world. Raw cotton came in to Liverpool docks and was sold on the Exchange. In the beginning, it was then transported to cottages all over the county where whole families, including the children, would clean, card, spin and weave it. The finished cloth was then sold on the Manchester Exchange. With the coming of the Industrial Revolution new machines saw the work transferred from home to factory. It was said that Lancashire could produce enough cotton before breakfast to supply the UK market, with the remainder of the day's supply going overseas. Read the first hand accounts from local people, and look at the remarkable collection of contemporary photographs.

Ron Freethy

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Memories of the Lancashire Fishing Industry
Over the last 70 years or so, Lancashire's fishing industry has gone from boom in the 1940s to bust in the 1970s, and more recently to quotas and a more modest success. Author Ron Freethy describes shrimp and salmon netting based on Glasson Dock near Lancaster, cockle picking in Morecombe Bay; the Mersey fishing fleet, who used to catch the largest number of whitebait in Europe; and Fleetwood at one time home to many deep-sea trawlers and the third most important fishing port in Britain.

This book is a proud record of Lancashire's fishing heritage for those who were part of it and those too young to remember.

Ron Freethy

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Memories of the Leicestershire Coalfields
A way of life ended in Leicestershire when Bagworth Colliery, one of the oldest and longest running traditional deep mines in the country, closed in 1991. The mines may have gone but many of the men who earned their living deep underground still remain. The author, David Bell has met and talked to some of those ex-miners about what it was like to be part of such a close-knit group. Courageous and resourceful, miners had a unique brand of humour and a deep sense of community born from risking life and limb. Comradeship was everything and this was tested to the limit in 1984-85 when only a handful of Leicestershire miners, known as the "Dirty Thirty", supported the call to strike. In this book the miners describe their early experiences of working in the local pits and their day-to-day life, with the ever-present threat of injury, death or disaster. It is a tribute to their traditions and way of life.

David Bell

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Memories of the Lincolnshire Fishing Industry
During the 20th century Lincolnshire's ports provided one fifth of all the fish eaten in Britain. In the 1970s this changed as a result of the cod war with Iceland over a dispute about fishing rights in home waters. New technology such as satellite navigation, sonar and mechanical winches also played its part. The fleet got smaller and changed direction. Of the smaller local ports. Cleethorpes, concentrated on Oyster beds,Freiston Shore on shrimps, soles and sprats and Boston on cockles from The wash. A new type of fishing vessel was developed and named after football clubs, this joined the Cat Class of boats launched in 1957 and named by local Grimsby school children.

The book concludes with details of the National Fishing Heritage Centre opened in 1991, a look at local fishing families or dynasties, a list of common fishing terms and some fishing superstitions. The story of Lincolnshire's Fishing industry is told with the help of memories and anecdotes from those who were once involved and from a collection of contemporary photographs. Bernard Bale who lives in Lincolnshire has talked to many local people and have records of the conditions, the work, the people and the humour of this local industry which forms such a large part of the county's identity.

Bernard Bale

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Memories of the Nottinghamshire Coalfields
For this book, David Bell has met and talked to many ex-miners about what it was like to be part of the mining community. They describe their early experiences of working in the local pits and the harsh and dangerous conditions they had to face together. For most a way of life, which had come down from father to son to grandson, vanished in the 1980s. The 1984-85 miner's strike, when 27,000 Nottinghamshire men voted to work on while 7,000 came out, split families and caused rifts that are still keenly felt today. This book includes many old photographs, a map of the county's coalfields and a chart of the local pits also showing how many each one employed.

David Bell

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Memories of the Northumberland Coalfields
The mines have gone but many of the men who earned thier living deep underground still remain. The author, Neil Taylor, has met and talked to some of thos ex-miners and their families about what it was like to be part of such a close-knit group. Courageous and resourceful, miners had a unique brand of humour and a deep sense of community born from risking life and limb. Comradeship was everything and this was tested to the limit during the strike of 1984-85.

Neil Taylor

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Memories of the Staffordshire Coalfields
Staffordshire has been described as one vast coalfield. All but the north-eastern corner has coal beneath the surface. There were three main coalfields; North Staffordshire, Cannock Chase and the Black Country.

In 1958 there were 25 working collieries in North Staffordshire. Cannock Chase, which in 1925 had 28, was left with 16 pits and the Black Country had 4. In the Cannock Chase area the coal was very deep and difficult to reach while in the Black Country coalfield, it was the exact opposite. All the coal was near the surface - never more than 40 feet below the ground.

The stories of life in the pits are told with the help of first-hand accounts and fall into chapter headings such as Missing Fingers, Fatalities and some Lucky Escapes and Pit Humour.

David Bell

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Oxford Companion to Family and Local History

The Oxford Companion to Family and Local History is the most authoritative guide available to all things associated with the family and local history of the British Isles. It provides practical and contextual information for anyone enquiring into their English, Irish, Scottish, or Welsh origins and for anyone working in genealogical research, or the social history of the British Isles.

This fully revised and updated edition contains over 2,000 entries from adoption to World War records. Recommended web links for many entries are accessed and updated via the Family and Local History companion website. This edition provides guidance on how to research your family tree using the internet and details the full range of online resources available. Newly structured for ease of use, thematic articles are followed by the A-Z dictionary and detailed appendices, which include further reading. New articles for this edition are: 'A Guide for Beginners', 'Links between British and American Families', 'Black and Asian Family History', and an extended feature on 'Names'.

With handy research tips, a full background to the social history of communities and individuals, and an updated appendix listing all national and local record offices with their contact details, this is an essential reference work for anyone wanting advice on how to approach genealogical research, as well as a fascinating read for anyone interested in the past. Paperback 662 pages.
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Oxford Companion to Scottish History

The Oxford Companion to Scottish History interprets history broadly, including archaeology, architecture, climate, culture, folk belief, geology, and the langauages of Scotland. It covers more than 20 centuries of history, including immigrants, migrants, and emigrants. It extends from Orkney and Shetland to Galloway, the Western Isles to the Borders. It deals extensively with Scots abroad, from Canada to Russia to New Zealand. It includes entries on historical figures from Columba, Macbeth, and William Wallace to James (Paraffin) Young. It covers Burns Clubs, curling, and shinty. It ranges from clans to Clearances and Covenanters.
Over 500,000 words in length, and written by more than 70 distinguished contributors, it aims to explain as well as describe. It is more than a historical dictionary or an encyclopedia. Multi-authored entries analyse key themes such as kingship, national identity, women and society, urban and rural life, the economy, housing, living standards, and religious belief across the centruies in an authoritative but approachable way.
The Oxford Companion to Scottish History has a broader range of topics and approaches, and a more authoritative list of contributors than any of its competitors. It also stands alone in providing analysis of issues such as national identity and living standards.

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Oxford Dictionary of First Names

The fascinating and informative Dictionary of First Names covers over 6,000 names in common use in English, including the very newest names as well as traditional names. From Alice to Zanna and Adam to Zola this book will answer all your questions: it will tell you the age, origin, and meaning of the name, as well as how it has fared in terms of popularity, and who the famous fictional or historical bearers for the name have been. It covers alternative spellings, short forms and pet forms, and masculine and feminine forms, as well as help with pronunciation.

The book includes extensive appendices covering names from languages including Scottish, Irish, French, German, Italian, Arabic, and Chinese names. Tables of the most popular names by year and by region are also included.

This is the most comprehensive paperback first names dictionary available. From the traditional to the rare and unconventional, this book will tell you everything you need to know about names.
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Penguin Dictionary of British Surnames

The Penguin Dictionary of British Surnames is a useful and fascinating guide to the surnames that offer a unique insight into the place of origin, the occupations - and even the personality traits - of our ancestors. Detailed and informative, this dictionary covers the widest range of British surnames and is essential reading for anyone intrigued by the story of their name and by the history of their family. John Titford

Paperback

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The English Village Explained
The English village conjures up an image of rural harmony and of our ancestors woven into the broader pageant of England's past. But, existing village histories are often mere lists of past lords of the manor. What we are really interested in is how a village began, what it might have looked like down the centuries, and what clues to the past are still there for those who know what to look for. The superb drawings illustrate the physical appearance of the village through different periods of history and there are diagrams and photographs of historic features. Full colour.

Trevor Yorke

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The Family and Local History Handbook 13

The latest issue of The Family and Local History Handbook comprehensively covers everything from beginning your family history to areas of specific research, as well as advice on using the internet, digital technology and military sources.
Listings of over five thousand useful addresses and contacts are at your fingertips at all times.

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Timber-Framed Buildings Explained
From a distance the contorted structure of a timber-framed building, with bowing beams and leaning posts, can create an impression, that it has been ravaged by centuries of wear and tear. However, they represent the earliest style of home still habitable, and the quality of this construction and beauty of this decoration have allowed many of them to survive the centuries since they were build and remain a joy for today's generation.

The first section of the book explains the background and basic principles of these black and white buildings - how they rose to prominence, were altered over time to suit different tastes and pockets. Examples of buildings standing today are used.

The second section explains how the timber was produced, the parts assembled and the finished structure protected from the elements. Trevor Yorke has used a wide range of diagrams, illustrations and photographs to enhance a rich and authoritative text.

Trevor Yorke

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