Thread: Book

petal · 02-10-2006, 06:25 PM

'Tracing Your Scottish Ancestors': The Official Guide (Paperback)
by Scottish Record Office, National Archives Of Scotland (Editor)

Looks like an interesting read if youre after Scottish rellies and you can get it on Amazon new or second hand.

gillian · 29-10-2006, 03:46 PM

Another non-fiction book -
'A History of Myddle' by Richard Gough - a history of the parish (in Shropshire) written in 1701 by one of its parishioners. Contains the stories of the people in the village - it is absolutely fascinating - gives a wonderful picture of 17th century England.
Gillian

petal · 18-12-2006, 02:42 PM

'Keeping Their Place. Domestic Service in a Country House'.

Gives details of the sort of lives led by domestic servants and available on Amazon. Haven't read it but have ordered it.........looks like an interesting bit of social history.

(Oops.........forgot to make note of publisher but if you type in the title it comes up)

petal · 22-12-2006, 12:41 PM

Ordered the two books - Domestic Service and one about life on the land- on Monday.........arrived today !!!!

Domestic Service one called 'Keeping Their Place' by Pamela Sambrook.

The other one is 'Lifting the Latch' about life on the land -ag. lab in Oxfordshire. By Sheila Stewart. Look like good reading.

petal · 27-12-2006, 02:23 PM

These looked like good and informative reading

' Daily Life in Victorian England' by Sally Mitchell (part of it is viewable on line)

'Hedingham Harvest' (Victorian life in rural England) by Geoffrey Robinson

Pauline1 · 09-06-2007, 08:22 PM

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Originally Posted by petal

Read all the David Pelzer books...............painful story but interesting to see how he coped and got through it, particularly in view of what I do. Also good ones along that line are 'The Kid' and 'Moving on' by Kevin Lewis.
Have now got the two follow ups to 'Kates Story' (found them at a boot fair this morning). Looking forward to reading them.
There's also a book around -think it's called 'Empty cradles' written by a social worker from Nottingham and all about the children that were shipped off to Canada.

Yes you're quite right Mary with the Title of the book. The author is Margaret Humphreys a Nottingham Social Worker. Just googled it LOL..
It looks like a good book to read.

petal · 07-10-2007, 12:31 PM

This looks like an interesting book

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Book:A Woman's Place, an Oral History of Working Class Women, 1890-1940

Elizabeth Roberts
Blackwell's, Oxford, 1996, edn. 237 pps.; ISBN 0-631-14754-3 Reviewer:Professor Sally Alexander

Goldmiths College, University of London
No history of class or industrialisation is taught now without the demography of the household, the value of domestic labour, the items of working class consumption, the texture of sexual difference. Elizabeth Roberts' fine oral history of the everyday lives of "ordinary" working class women in Lancashire between 1890 and 1940 has provided a detailed study of these themes since its first publication in 1985. The reprint is welcome. Through Roberts' analysis of the transcripts of the 160 respondents from Barrow, Preston and Lancaster we know more now about the hidden lives of mothers and grandmothers of those of us born mid-century in Britain. The story is a bleak one. Women's lives were repetitious and hard - in the idiom of the time and place - all "work and bed." "The women they worked and worked" Roberts was told, "They had babies and worked like idiots. They died. They were old at forty." Among the poor, wrote Ada Neild Chew, trade union organiser and suffragist in Lancashire before the first world war, were "women who had not lived"

petal · 10-10-2007, 07:27 PM

Book I've almost finished reading:

Rooms of Dust (The search for my father) by Sarah Pat O'Brien tells of an Irish girls quest to find out about the father she never knew.

petal · 13-11-2007, 05:40 PM

This sites worth a look...........just found a book of traditional bedfordshire recipes on there reduced from £9.99 to £3.99 - bargain for me. There were books on traditional recipes from other areas as well as all sorts of books to do with family history that could be useful.

www.thebookpeople.co.uk

mollie · 14-11-2007, 05:18 PM

Good link Mary but I am confused

What are you going to do with a recipe book or is it a Christmas Pressie for Bill.............lol

02-10-2006, 06:25 PM	#11 (permalink)
petal Super Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Horncastle, Lincolnshire Posts: 8,293 Total Awards: 3	Re: Book 'Tracing Your Scottish Ancestors': The Official Guide (Paperback) by Scottish Record Office, National Archives Of Scotland (Editor) Looks like an interesting read if youre after Scottish rellies and you can get it on Amazon new or second hand.
	(AKA Mary) How beautiful it is to do nothing and rest afterwards...

29-10-2006, 03:46 PM	#12 (permalink)
gillian Ancestry Aid Staff Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Leicester Posts: 2,314 Total Awards: 4	Re: Book Another non-fiction book - 'A History of Myddle' by Richard Gough - a history of the parish (in Shropshire) written in 1701 by one of its parishioners. Contains the stories of the people in the village - it is absolutely fascinating - gives a wonderful picture of 17th century England. Gillian

18-12-2006, 02:42 PM	#13 (permalink)
petal Super Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Horncastle, Lincolnshire Posts: 8,293 Total Awards: 3	Re: Book 'Keeping Their Place. Domestic Service in a Country House'. Gives details of the sort of lives led by domestic servants and available on Amazon. Haven't read it but have ordered it.........looks like an interesting bit of social history. (Oops.........forgot to make note of publisher but if you type in the title it comes up)
	(AKA Mary) How beautiful it is to do nothing and rest afterwards...

22-12-2006, 12:41 PM	#14 (permalink)
petal Super Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Horncastle, Lincolnshire Posts: 8,293 Total Awards: 3	Re: Book Ordered the two books - Domestic Service and one about life on the land- on Monday.........arrived today !!!! Domestic Service one called 'Keeping Their Place' by Pamela Sambrook. The other one is 'Lifting the Latch' about life on the land -ag. lab in Oxfordshire. By Sheila Stewart. Look like good reading.
	(AKA Mary) How beautiful it is to do nothing and rest afterwards...

27-12-2006, 02:23 PM	#15 (permalink)
petal Super Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Horncastle, Lincolnshire Posts: 8,293 Total Awards: 3	Re: Book These looked like good and informative reading ' Daily Life in Victorian England' by Sally Mitchell (part of it is viewable on line) 'Hedingham Harvest' (Victorian life in rural England) by Geoffrey Robinson
	(AKA Mary) How beautiful it is to do nothing and rest afterwards...

10-10-2007, 07:27 PM	#18 (permalink)
petal Super Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Horncastle, Lincolnshire Posts: 8,293 Total Awards: 3	Re: Book Book I've almost finished reading: Rooms of Dust (The search for my father) by Sarah Pat O'Brien tells of an Irish girls quest to find out about the father she never knew.
	(AKA Mary) How beautiful it is to do nothing and rest afterwards...

13-11-2007, 05:40 PM	#19 (permalink)
petal Super Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Horncastle, Lincolnshire Posts: 8,293 Total Awards: 3	Re: Book This sites worth a look...........just found a book of traditional bedfordshire recipes on there reduced from £9.99 to £3.99 - bargain for me. There were books on traditional recipes from other areas as well as all sorts of books to do with family history that could be useful. www.thebookpeople.co.uk
	(AKA Mary) How beautiful it is to do nothing and rest afterwards...

14-11-2007, 05:18 PM	#20 (permalink)
mollie Ancestry Aid Staff Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Isle of Man Posts: 1,677 Total Awards: 2	Re: Book *Good link Mary but I am confused* *What are you going to do with a recipe book or is it a Christmas Pressie for Bill.............lol*
	Mollie Ancestry Aid Moderator The UK's No 1 For Genealogy & Family History. Top Tip: Use the forum search page to find surnames!!. Dunne,McManus, McCann,O'Dowd, Higgins, Smith, Traynor, O'Byrne, Lamond/t Henry/Nicolson/Bowman/McCafferty/Keelan and more....did I say Smith...oh yes I did...we all have one.........lol