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  • $22.00 1841 police return within the City of Glasgow
    Book Showing the name, age, occupation, country of birth, residence, weekly earnings, nature of dwellings, and other particulars of 1,038 persons within the City of Glasgow Sources for Labour History offers a clear and...
  • $8.25 Apothecaries 1815-1840
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  • $15.00 Baking and Bakeries
    Book For centuries bread has been a staple food of the poor, and remains an essential element in most people's diet. It was once considered a food so essential that governments set limits on bread prices in order to prevent...
  • $15.00 Charcoal and Charcoal Burning
    Book CHARCOAL AND CHARCOAL BURNING, by D.W.Kelley, a Shire Book, new. Illustrated throughout with black/white photos. Describes the rapid growth of the industry up to the 17th and 18th centuries and how the emphasis of...
  • $45.00 Children of the dark: Life and death underground in Victoria's England
    Book This is a true story covering territory rarely featured in history books - a dark time when women and children toiled underground in Victorian coal mines. Using extensive research, the book brings back to life the early...
  • $14.00 Chimneys and Chimney Sweeps
    Book Benita Cullingford 32 pp, 44 b/w ills. Chimney sweeping is an ancient trade dating from the twelfth century. This social history, covering five centuries, draws on source material from original manuscripts and...
  • $15.00 Cider Making
    Book Cidermaking is one of the ancient rural crafts of Britain and north-western Europe. The major producing counties are Devon, Somerset and Herefordshire. In these areas cidermaking has traditionally been a central part...
  • $42.50 Clergy List 1858
    CD record Contains the names and livings of clergymen in England, Wales and Ireland, the Scottish Episcopal Church, military, naval and prison chaplains, as well as those working all over the British Empire. High quality...
  • $20.00 Coachbuilding the Hand Crafted Car Body
    Book The craft of the coachbuilder developed over hundreds of years, perfecting the art of making the elegant horse-drawn carriage. With the coming of the motor car, coachbuilders were the only men with the skills to produce...
  • $14.00 Coal Mining
    Book From 1800 to the mid twentieth century the burning of coal provided nearly all of the power for British industry and transport. It also provided heat for homes. By distillation it produced gas for lighting and cooking...
  • $20.00 Coopers and Coopering
    Book Wooden casks, or what most people today call barrels, are containers of exceptional strength, durability, versatility and mobility, but they have become a rarity in Britain, displaced so completely by metal containers...
  • $14.00 Cotton Industry
    Book Chris Aspin 32 pp, 43 ills. The book tells the story of the cotton industry from its spectacular growth during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries to its devastating decline in recent years. The...
  • $42.50 Crockford's clerical directory 1868
    CD record Crockford's directories are a superb source of information for those with ancestors in the clergy. The contents are similar to the earlier clergy lists but are much more detailed, giving vital personal information...
  • $41.00 Crockford's Clerical directory 1874
    CD record Crockfords directories are a superb source of information for those with ancestors in the clergy. The subtitle is very descriptive in describing the book "Biographical and Statistical Book of Reference for Facts...
  • $42.50 Crockford's clerical directory 1885
    CD record Crockfords directories are a superb source of information for those with ancestors in the clergy. The subtitle is very descriptive in describing the book "Biographical and Statistical Book of Reference for Facts...
  • $42.50 Crockford's Clerical directory 1908
    CD record Crockford's directories are a superb source of information for those with ancestors in the clergy. The contents are similar to the earlier Clergy Lists but are much more detailed, giving vital personal information...
  • $20.00 Dictionary of Medical and Related Terms for Family Historians
    Book Joan Grundy has forty years' experience as a midwife and practice nurse. During thirty of these years, she has researched her own family history and has been involved with several F.H. Societies. Her publication is...
  • $22.00 Discovering London's Guilds and Liveries
    Book The City of London has one of the strongest unbroken traditions of livery companies in the world. Over one hundred companies, some six centuries old, maintain strong, colourful, beneficial, traditional and independent...
  • $40.00 Domestic Service in Australia
    Book This ground-breaking work is the first comprehensive account of the lives of domestic servants in Australia. It shows the significance of domestic service for Australia's society. B. W. Higman: HB; 304 pp, 235 x 154...
  • $25.00 Dominie profile of the Scottish headmaster
  • $20.00 Drovers
    Book new colour edition - now available Shirley Toulson 40 pp, colour and b/w ills. In a bygone age when few people travelled far from their homes and almost any journey was an adventure the drovers regularly made the...
  • $16.50 Ecclesiastical directory 1829 [Church of England]
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  • $20.00 Family history notebook: how to find occupational records in Australia
    Book This book is designed to help researchers find and use occupational records in Australia. It is arranged alphabetically by category and by state within each category. It is fully indexed and includes a place index...
  • $35.00 Female Occupations: Women's Employment 1850-1950
    Book This is a carefully researched A-Z of women's employment, covering over 100 years of change. The entries themselves are based on an encyclopaedic approach, each full of interest and information, as they chart the...
  • $35.00 Fishing and Fishermen: a guide for Family Historians
    Book Concise account of the history of the british fishing industry Guide to relevant archives, records andwebsites for family historians Traces the development of the industry from medieval times to the present Describes...
  • $14.00 Flax and Linen
    Book Flax has been cultivated for thousands of years to produce the fibre to make linen. The characteristics of flax fibres have made linens among the most useful textiles throughout history but the same characteristics have...
  • $14.00 Framework Knitting
    Book The stocking frame was one of the first technological developments in the textile industries, dating from the reign of the first Queen Elizabeth. It was probably invented in the East Midlands, but certainly knitted...
  • $14.00 Glass and Glassmaking
    Book This book offers a general introduction to the vast and complex subject of glass. The author examines not just the history and technology of glassmaking but also the social background - the lives of the glassmakers and...
  • $15.00 Gunpowder Industry
    Book Glenys Crocker Outlines the history of the gunpowder industry.
  • $23.00 Historys Midwives including a C17th and C18th Yorkshire Midwives Nominations index
    Book The first part of the book begins with the story of how childbirth was conducted in the C17th and C18th at a time of political and religious upheaval in EnglandPart two of this book is based on the Midwives Nominations...
  • $33.00 Identification of Lace
    Book This book guides the reader through the intricacies of identifying a piece of lace, listing and illustrating the points to look for in each lace. It covers the whole range of lace from all parts of the world, selecting...
  • $14.00 Ironworking
    Book Iron has been used for about four thousand years; it was essential to the industrial revolution and is still the principal metal of commerce. For centuries ironmaking was a manual craft and only small quantities were...
  • $15.00 Lead and Leadmining
    Book Leadmining was an important industry in Britain from the time of the Romans until the late nineteenth century - its remains are to be found scattered around the British Isles. From the thousands of small early mines,...
  • $15.00 Limekilns and Limeburning
    Book Disused limekilns in various degrees of dilapidation can be seen all over Britain. The best-known are probably those near harbours or coves but there are many on farmland, in disused quarries or beside inland waterways...
  • $20.65 London Livery Company Apprenticeship registers series: Armourers and Brasiers Company 1610-1800 v.22
    Book List of the apprentices to the company, including name of master, often name of father and home parish and gives date of start of apprenticeship. 1st edition 1998, 98 pages
  • $9.90 London Livery Company Apprenticeship registers series: Basketmakers Company 1639-1824 v.10
    Book List of the apprentices to the company, including name of master, often name of father and home parish and gives date of start of apprenticeship. 1st edition 1997, 42 pages
  • $14.85 London Livery Company Apprenticeship registers series: Bowyers, Fletchers, Longbow stringmakers
    Book Bowyers' Co 1680-1806: Fletchers' Co 1739-53; 1767-1808: Longbow stringmakers Co 1604-68; 1709, 1714-17 v.3 A List of the apprentices to the company, including name of master, often name of father and home parish and...
  • $17.35 London Livery Company Apprenticeship registers series: Curriers Company 1628-1800 v.30
    Book List of the apprentices of the Curriers' Company. Gives name, fathers name (usually), masters name, date and often home parish. 1st edition 2000, 92 pages
  • $19.00 London Livery Company Apprenticeship registers series: Founders Company 1643-1800 v.21
    Book List of the apprentices to the company, including name of master, often name of father and home parish and gives date of start of apprenticeship. 1st edition 1998, 90 pages
  • $10.75 London Livery Company Apprenticeship registers series: Glass-sellers Company 1664-1812: Woolmens Company 1665-1828 v.5A
    Book List of the apprentices to the company, including name of master, often name of father and home parish and gives date of start of apprenticeship. 1st edition 1996
  • $13.20 London Livery Company Apprenticeship registers series: Paviors Company 1568-1800 v.20
    Book List of the apprentices to the company, including name of master, often name of father and home parish and gives date of start of apprenticeship. 1st edition 1998, 34 pages
  • $13.20 London Livery Company Apprenticeship registers series: Poulters Company 1691-1729, 1754-1800 v.18
    Book List of the apprentices to the company, including name of master, often name of father and home parish and gives date of start of apprenticeship. 1st edition 1998, 48 pages
  • $13.20 London Livery Company Apprenticeship registers series: Tinplateworkers Company 1666, 1668, 1676, 1681, 1683-1800 v.16
    Book List of the apprentices to the company, including name of master, often name of father and home parish and gives date of start of apprenticeship. 1st edition 1998, 62 pages
  • $13.20 London Livery Company Apprenticeship registers series: Upholders Company 1704-1772 v.19
    Book List of the apprentices to the company, including name of master, often name of father and home parish and gives date of start of apprenticeship. 1st edition 1998, 46 pages
  • $14.85 London Livery Company Apprenticeship registers series: Wax Chandlers, Brown Bakers
    Book Wax Chandlers' Company 1666-1800: Brown Bakers' Company 1615-1646 v.31This volume covers 1130 Wax Chandlers' and 657 Brown Bakers' apprenticeships from the London Livery Companies. Abstracted & Indexed by Cliff Webb. 58...
  • $14.00 Looms and Weaving
    Book This book describes the development of the loom from a crude wooden frame to a sophisticated electronic weaving machine. It introduces common textile terms and techniques and there is a description of primitive looms,...
  • $29.50 Loxton's medical Directory 1911
    CD record The Loxton's Medical Directory is similar to Bruck's, but is a lot more comprehensive in many areas, as well as including many extra features unique to this publication. Primarily covering all Australian States,...
  • $59.50 Medical Directory 1898: Britain and Ireland
    CD record This excellent book of over 2,000 pages lists all of the doctors, surgeons, dentists, etc, together with short biographical details of each. Includes: The London Medical Directory; The Provincial Medical...
  • $48.00 Medical Directory for Ireland 1852
    CD record This publication was the first full medical directory of Ireland, published in 1852. It includes all medical practitioners who held a qualification, either as an apothecary (pharmacist) or a medical doctor...
  • $16.50 Medical directory London and provincial 1847
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  • $4.40 Medical register index 1779
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  • $11.00 Medical register London and provincial 1779
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  • $19.50 Medical, Dental and Pharmaceutical Directory of NSW 1903
    CD record The Medical Dental and Pharmaceutical Directory of New South Wales contains a large amount of statistics and medical information for New South Wales in 1903 It contains information including the...
  • $4.40 Metropolitan police born in Buckinghamshire 1791-1868
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  • $19.00 My Ancestor Was A Royal Marine
    Book By Ken Divall. This new book fills a gap in the genealogical market and provides guidance in tracing ancestors who served in the Royal Marines. The book outlines the records available and where to find them and...
  • $23.00 My Ancestor Was an Agricultural Labourer
    Book By Ian Waller. This much anticipated addition to the My Ancestors series will be of interest to all genealogists and family historians. Most family trees contain an agricultural labourer somewhere and Ian Waller's...
  • $20.00 My Ancestors Were Thames Watermen
    Book By James Legon. This is a fully revised edtion of this unique guide to tracing watermen and lightermen who worked on the Thames.
  • $18.00 Occupational sources for genealogists: a bibliography
    Book A vast amount of occupational information of interest to genealogists is available in print. There are innumerable biographical dictionaries, descriptions of archives, record publications, lists of the members of...
  • $6.00 Pharmaceutical Society 1841 - List of members and Associates
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  • $15.00 Ploughs and Ploughing
    Book One of the most basic of agricultural operations, ploughing enriches and aerates the soil, producing a fertile seed bed ideal for the germination and growth of a new crop. The technology of ploughs has progressed a long...
  • $18.00 Potteries
    Book No industrial skyline was more memorable than the forest of bottle ovens that dominated Stoke-on-Trent for more than two centuries. The renowned wares of Spode, Wedgwood, and countless other factories emerged from...
  • $55.00 Railway Ancestors: a guide to thew staff records of the railway companies of England and Wales 1822-1947
    Book Almost every family tree will have a railway employee in one of its branches. Railway Ancestors is a comprehensive and illustrated guide which opens up to genealogists and railway enthusiasts the vast range of unique...
  • $18.00 Researching Brewery and Publican ancestors
    Book This booklet is in two sections. The first is a brief survey about the changing nature of brewing, the pub and the people who worked there, which might help if you are trying to discover more about your ancestor and the...
  • $14.00 Rope, Twine and Net Making
    Book Since ancient times rope, twine and nets have been used for the essential elements of survival - hunting, roofing and bedding - yet in today's world they are often taken for granted. This book charts the history of the...
  • $18.00 Salt Industry
    Book Andrew Philip Fielding Salt can be obtained by evaporation from sea water or inland from brine springs, and following the discovery of rock salt deposits it has also been mined. This book explains the various...
  • $35.00 Seamen's Crew Lists: Wales PRO BT 98 1851
    CD record These lists and agreements are intended to find many of those involved in merchant shipping who cannot be located on the 1851 census because they were simply not at home to be enumerated. Some were at ports in the...
  • $35.00 Seamen's Crew Lists: Scotland, Ireland and Wales PRO BT 98 1851
    CD record These lists and agreements are intended to find many of those involved in merchant shipping who cannot be located on the 1851 census because they were simply not at home to be enumerated. Some were at ports in the...
  • $35.00 Seamen's Crewlists, 1851 (PRO: - BT 98) Cornwall
    CD record These lists and agreements are intended to find many of those involved in merchant shipping who cannot be located on the 1851 census because they were simply not at home to be enumerated. Some were at ports in the...
  • $35.00 Seamen's Crewlists, 1851 (PRO: BT 98) - Aberdeenshire
  • $35.00 Seamen's Crewlists, 1851 (PRO: BT 98) - Angus
    CD record These lists and agreements are intended to find many of those involved in merchant shipping who cannot be located on the 1851 census because they were simply not at home to be enumerated. Some were at ports in the...
  • $35.00 Seamen's Crewlists, 1851 (PRO: BT 98) - Lanarkahire
    CD record These lists and agreements are intended to find many of those involved in merchant shipping who cannot be located on the 1851 census because they were simply not at home to be enumerated. Some were at ports in the...
  • $35.00 Seamen's Crewlists, 1851 (PRO: BT 98) - Renfrewshire
    CD record These lists and agreements are intended to find many of those involved in merchant shipping who cannot be located on the 1851 census because they were simply not at home to be enumerated. Some were at ports in the...
  • $35.00 Seamen's Crewlists, 1851 (PRO: BT 98) - Scotland South - West, Highlands and Islands
    CD record These lists and agreements are intended to find many of those involved in merchant shipping who cannot be located on the 1851 census because they were simply not at home to be enumerated. Some were at ports in the...
  • $35.00 Seamen's Crewlists, 1851 (PRO: BT 98) - Scotland South-East
    CD record These lists and agreements are intended to find many of those involved in merchant shipping who cannot be located on the 1851 census because they were simply not at home to be enumerated. Some were at ports in the...
  • $35.00 Seamens Crewlists BT 98 Ireland
  • $35.00 Seamens Crewlists BT 98 Ireland Mid and Ewast (Leinster)
  • $35.00 Seamens Crewlists BT 98 Ireland North (Ulster)
  • $35.00 Seamens Crewlists BT 98 Ireland South and West (Munster and Connaught)
  • $35.00 Seamens Crewlists BT 98 Scotland
  • $15.00 Shoemaking
    Book Shoemaking is a subject about which most people are blissfully ignorant although, with a little encouragement, they will complain about the shoes they wear. Before the 1920s, however, everyone knew the local cobbler,...
  • $14.00 Silk Industry
    Book Sarah Bush 32 pages, 45 b/w illustrations. A silk industry was first recorded in china about 2600 BC, its secrets spreading along the silk road to reach Constantinople in AD 500. In the fourteenth century it was...
  • $14.00 Slate Industry
    Book The slate industry has left an indelible mark on the history of our society. Slate quarries and the associated masses of waste have an awe-inspiring impact. It was a phenomenon of the nineteenth century, a product of...
  • $15.00 Spinning and Spinning Wheels
    Book Eliza Leadbeater Spinning and Spinning Wheels traces the evolution of the ancient skill of spinning, from the early spindle, through the introduction of the wool and the flax wheel, to the numerous variations of the...
  • $23.50 Stepping Stone to Homoeopathy and Health
    CD record Published circa 1900, the twelfth edition of this very popular book on homoeopathy by Edward Harris Ruddock gives a comprehensive coverage of the topic. Following a brief history of homoeopathy and its future...
  • $14.00 Straw and Straw Craftsmen
    Book Although its uses have dwindled over the years, straw was once a greatly valued by-product of cereal crops. When harvested and stored well, it can be attractive, fragrant and resilient, and for generations straw has...
  • $18.00 Thatch and Thatching
    Book The craft of the thatcher probably gives more pleasure to people than any other of our rural crafts; the inclusion in a country scene of a thatched house, cottage or barn often adds the element of continuity and...
  • $45.00 Tracing The Rifle Volunteers
    Book From 1859 to 1908 the Rifle Volunteers played an essential role in Britain's national defence, yet their history has been sadly neglected. Little information is available on these dedicated, amateur soldiers who were...
  • $35.00 Tracing Your Army Ancestors
    Book Whether you are interested in the career of an individual officer, researching medals awarded to a soldier or just want to know more about a particular battle or campaign, this book will point you in the right...
  • $30.00 Tracing Your Labour Movement Ancestors
    Book If you want to find out about the life of an ancestor who was involved in the labour I movement or was a union member, this handbook will be a fascinating introduction to the subject. Mark Crail provides a graphic and...
  • $35.00 Tracing Your Police Ancestors
    Book Tracing Your Police Ancestors will help you locate and research officers who served in any of the police forces of England and Wales from the creation of the Metropolitan Police by Sir Robert Peel in 1829. Assuming...
  • $35.00 Tracing Your Railway Ancestors
    Book Di Drummond's concise and informative guide to Britain's railways will be absorbing reading for anyone who wants to learn about the history of the industry and for family history researchers who want to find out about...
  • $35.00 Tracing Your Secret Service Ancestors
    Book Comprehensive guide to 100 years of spies and spying Includes naval, military and air intelligence Information on all the records kept by major archives and museums Did you have a spy in the family, an ancestor who was...
  • $35.00 Tracing Your Textile Ancestors
    Book Vivien Teasdale's concise and informative guide to the textile industry will be absorbing reading for anyone who wants to learn about its history or to research the career of an ancestor who was a textile worker. In...
  • $14.00 Victorian Chemist and Druggist
    Book After a brief historical introduction and a description of a Victorian chemist and druggist's shop, this book describes and illustrates many of the items used and sold there. Most of the dispensing equipment and...
  • $15.00 Victorian Clergyman
    Book The Victorian clergyman is a familiar character in the fiction of the period, especially in the novels of Anthony Trollope and George Eliot. Through text and pictures, this book sets out to tell their story and to set...
  • $15.00 Victorian Domestic Servant
    Book In 1851 there were over one million servants in Britain, making domestic service the second largest occupational group after agriculture. The range of people who kept servants was vast, from aristocrats like the sixth...
  • $15.00 Victorian Farmer
    Book David J. Eveleigh 32 pp, 49 b/w ills. In spite of an enormous body of literature on the Victorian countryside, surprisingly little has been written on the lives of the farmers. Attention has focused on the great...
  • $15.00 Victorian Ironmonger
    Book Cecil A. Meadows 32 pp, 33 ills. The Victorian ironmonger's shop was the nineteenth-century equivalent of the modern department store and a vast range of goods could be bought there. If the Victorian housewife...
  • $14.00 Victorian Policeman
    Book As Queen Victoria's reign commenced the old watchmen were still patrolling the streets and Bow Street Runners were still investigating crime in London; the counties and boroughs were being policed by their own unpaid...
  • $14.00 Victorian Railway Worker
    Book Trevor May 32 pp, 59 b/w ills Railways quickly became one of the largest employers in the United Kingdom, giving work not only to those who ran the trains, but also to a wide range of craftsmen and ancillary workers...
  • $14.00 Victorian Undertaker
    Book Trevor May 32 pp, 50 ills. The Victorians were familiar with death and, while they did not welcome it, they felt relatively at ease with it. This book looks at the background to Victorian ideas and at the way in...
  • $18.00 Was your grandfather a railwayman? Fourth edition
    Book Author: Tom Richards A Directory of Railway Archive sources for family historians This new edition contains a directory of records relating to staff employed by railways in the following countries with details of...
  • $36.00 Western Infirmary Residents' Club Members 1874 to 1935
    CD record Being records of the Incorporation of Weavers. "The Records of the Incorporation have had a varied fate, some of the earliest having survived while the history of the middle age of the craft is a complete blank. It...
  • $18.00 Woollen Industry
    Book Chris Aspin 32 pp, 42 ills. Most places in Britain have had some connection with the woollen industry. For several hundred years it was Britain's principal source of wealth and provided more jobs than all the other...

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