Forum: Recommended Books

Does anyone have a copy of Whyte Donald, A dictionary of scottish emigrants to canada before confederation Vol 3 and could do a look-up for me? With thanks in advance, Mike

I was given 'Nobody's Child' by Kate Adie for Christmas. As well as some very interesting personal stories of foundlings and adopted children it is a very good read. I found it well researched and it gave me quite a few ideas as to where/how things can be researched and then written up. Even...

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 have just been given a book about child migrants sent to Australia by Margaret Humphreys CBE. Apparently there is also a film based on the book called Oranges and Sunshine. Has anybody read it/seen it and will I need the tissue box beside me?

I have recently read several crime novels (by different authors) set between the turn of the century and the 1930s, which included some interesting background on various issues, e.g the introduction of contraception for women, women in the police and military forces, etc, and of course, the...

I found this book written 1903, at the Internet Archives,(address below) from the "Falmouth Enterprise", over 19 pages from the Falmouth Historical Society Mass, which have the records on all the headstones in the Old Burying Ground. Hugh. http://archive.org/details/oldburyingground00falm

I discovered this rather interesting book in our local library on my most recent visit. It's written by Richard D. Dawe M.A., and is good background reading for anyone who has Cornish ancestors who ended up in South Africa. The main bias is on mining, although Cornish folk in other trades and...

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 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...