Social History

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Brown Jonathan The Edwardian Farm Shire Publications (2010)

Davidson, Caroline A Woman’s Work is Never Done: a history of housework in the British Isles 1650-1750 Chatto and Windus (1982)

Few, Janet Coffers, Clysters, Comfrey and Coifs: the lives of our seventeenth century ancestors Family History Partnership (2012)

Few, Janet Remember Then: women’s memories of 1946-1969 and how to write your own The Family History Partnership (2014)

Flanders, Judith The Victorian House: domestic life from childbirth to deathbed Harper Perennial (2004)

Fussell, G E The English Rural Labourer; his home, furniture, clothing & food, from Tudor to Victorian times Batchworth Press (1949)

Gilbert, Christopher English Vernacular Furniture 1750-1900 Yale University Press (1991)

Ginn, Peter and Goodman, Ruth Tudor Monastery Farm BBC Books (2013)

Grafton, Carol Belanger Victorian Fashions: A Pictorial Archive with Over 1000 Illustrations of Women's Fashions from 1855-1903 Dover Publications (2012)

Hammond, John & Barbara The Village Labourer The History Press (2005)

Handford, Kay The Agricultural Labourer in 19th Century England Grosvenor House Publishing (2011)

Hartley, Dorothy Food in England Piatkus (2009)

Horn, Pamela Labouring Life in the Victorian Countryside Sutton Publishing (1987)

Langlands, Alex (ed.) Henry Stephens’s Book of the Farm Batsford (2011)

Langlands Alex, Ginn, Peter and Goodman, Ruth Victorian Farm Pavilion Books (2009)

Langlands Alex, Ginn, Peter and Goodman, Ruth Edwardian Farm Pavilion Books (2010)

Langlands Alex, Ginn, Peter and Goodman, Ruth Wartime Farm Mitchell Beazley (2012)

Osborn, Helen Our Village Ancestors: a geneaogist’s guide to understanding England’s rural past Robert Hale (2021)

Paterson, Michael A Brief History of Life in Victorian Britain Robinson (2008)

Porter, Roy English Society in the Eighteenth Century Penguin (1990)

Porter, Valerie Yesterday’s Farm: a taste of rural life from the past David and Charles (2008)

Richmond, Vivienne Clothing the Poor in Nineteenth-Century England Cambridge University Press (2016)

Shrimpton, Jayne British Working Dress Occupational Clothing 1750 – 1950 Shire Publications (2012)

Styles, John The Dress of the People: Everyday Fashion in Eighteenth-Century England Yale University Press (2008)

Tannahill, Reay Food in History revised edition Penguin (1988)

Thornton, P Authentic Decor: the domestic interior 1620-1920 Weidenfeld & Nicolson (new edition 2000)

Verdon, Nicola Working the Land: a history of the farmworkers in England from 1850 to the present day Palgrave Macmillan (2017)

Waugh, Norah The Cut of Men’s Clothes 1600 - 1930 Routledge (1987)

Waugh, Norah The Cut of Women’s Clothes 1600 - 1930 Faber & Faber (1994)        

Wills, Simon How our Ancestors Died: a guide for family historians Pen and Sword (2013)

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Family History Research

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Barratt, Nick Beginner’s Guide to your Ancestors Lives Pen and Sword (2010)

Cole, Jean & Titford, John Tracing your Family Tree 3rd edition Countryside Books (2000)

Few, Janet Family Historian’s Enquire Within Family History Partnership (2014)

Hey. David Family History & Local History in England Longmans (1987) 

Higginbotham, Peter The Workhouse Encyclopedia The History Press (2014)

Reaney, P.H. A Dictionary of British Surnames Routledge & Kegan Paul (1977)

Tate, W E The Parish Chest Phillimore 3rd edition (2011)

Waller, Ian My Ancestor was an Agricultural Labourer Society of Genealogists (2008)

West, John Village Records Phillimore (1997)

West, John Town Records Phillimore (1983)