Forum: Recommended Books

Anyone researching ancestors with connections to the textile industry in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire may find "Huddersfield Mills- a Textile Heritage" by Vivien Teasdale an interesting and very informative book. A readable history about the early mills, social history and a lot of local names.

Hi, I am trying to find a history book on the Georgian/Regency period that isn't fiction, nor written for children but about the ordinary man/woman in the street/home. There are loads for the Victorian era a lot of which I have read and found really useful but having gone a bit further back in...

I have just finished reading Flora Thompsons Trilogy as a documentary of life in the late 19th century it is a brilliant book with an insight into the attitudes and morals of the time.I only wish my great grandparents were still alive as I would have hundreds of questions I could ask them. Eric

I have just read Grace Foakes book, "Four Meals for Fourpence". If you want to find out just how hard it was for the poor in the early 1900's, then this book will open your eyes. Set in the East End of London, by the docks of the Thames, it sets out, in vivid detail the deprivation and poverty...

I found this very interesing but huge! book for Australian and New Zealand researchers at the Internet Archives,(address below) J W F Rogers 1888-89 Australasian Federal directory for Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, Norfolk Island, New Guinea and Fiji, there's over one hundred thousand addresses...

I'm not really interested in mining - have read much of that already, and I've downloaded a wonderful book on the Cornish language. I'm really interested in the cultural, religious, social, and political aspects of early Cornwall through the 1800s. I'm interested in the Celts, the invasions, the...

I have just read a book that was recomended on this forum. THE JOURNALS OF A GEORGIAN GENTLEMAN It was so interesting. From 1720 to abt 1800. Mostly in London and Gloucestershire. He names lots of names so someone could be lucky.:yesnod: I'm sure it is on sale at Parish Chest. June

I bought a family history book "The Thistlethwaite Family" by Bernard Thistlethwaite at my local flea market and was googling it to find out more about the book and author. I came across this site www. archive.org/ where the whole book is actually available to read online. There are over a...

Just to let everyone know that the British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa has recently released a book entitled British Home Children: Their Stories. BIFHSGO volunteers have spent a number of years indexing various resources from Library and Archives Canada that relate to Home...

Short on a Christmas Pressie? Check out the You to Me Books (google it), Amazon has several. If a recipient fills it in, then their future generations may have several questions answered and memories to treasure.:smilewinkgrin:

Have just been sent a copy of 'Fever Beach' by Mary Kruithof ISBN 0 9577601 2 4 It tells the story of the ill fated Ticonderoga, which sailed to Victoria, Australia with emigrants from the Highland Emigration Society in 1852, but had to be quarantined because of a dreadful outbreak of fever. A...

I was interested in the history of Lilling Hall in E. Lilling near Sheriff Hutton Yksh. but had never Googled Lilling Hall before, and lo and behold, at the very end of 10 pages was Dugdale's Visitation of Yksh. with Additions, and displays the genealogy, extensive, of the Halls in Leventhorpe,...

New book by local historian Richard Talbot. Big and very detailed. Very useful for anyone researching ancestors in Penkhull or Stoke upon Trent. Also contains info about Shelton, Hanley, Newcatle u Lyme and other nearby areas.

here is a few; " Lost voices of the edwardians" by Max Arthur , a wonderful social history author. " family photographs and how to date them" by jayne shrimpton " military photograhs and how to date them" by neil storey an excellent duo , well worth having. " dictionary of british military...

was wondering if anyone could suggest a social history book on blacksmiths? have traced a line of xg-grandfathers all farriers / smiths in middlesex. I've got back to the 1770s and the last one died in the workhouse in 1870s. I'd love to know more about their trade and how it changed during that...

hello, I am reading a good book at the moment, "The Arsenic Century" by James C Whorton. a history of how victorian britain was poisoned at home, work and play. Just reading a chapter of how parents poisoned their childred to get hold of the "burial money" , some women also used it to get...

Hi all, I was directed to this book in the NLA. It's worth finding to locate those difficult to find 'things' about your convict. It is an extremely comprehensive index of where to locate the many and varied references to convicts. It was compiled by State Records NSW and published in 2006: ...

mccorden here. I am just starting into this line of interest. I live in North Queensland. My parents have passed away and being the youngest in the family have little information about my forebears, so have to decided to find out for myself. I am wanting to keep focused at this stage on finding...

Lost London 1870-1945 Philip Davies Forward HRH The Duke of Gloucester English Heritage This beautiful publication is a worthy investment for anyone interested in fantastic photographs of a lost London. Many I am sure will find it very difficult to put down. Highly Highly...

Currently reading this excellent publication bought through the National Archives bookshop, and this is, Making Sense of the Census Revisited, by Edward Higgs. Census Records for England and Wales 1801-1901 A Handbook for Historical Researchers. Believe me if you want to take research...