Supplier Highlight: Pen & Sword
From time to time we highlight products – this time I’m highlighting a whole range from a particular supplier … Pen & Sword.
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Tag: English history
Introducing Historypin’s “Pubs of London” Project
London is famous for its pubs, there’s no doubt about that, with many of them being hundreds...
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Global Search for Descendants of Berwick Families
Berwick-upon-Tweed is a town in Northumberland, England, which is generally known as simply Berwick, and has a VERY long history. This town is situated in England, but is only 4km from the Scottish border. Now there is a global search on to find descendants of those who used to live in this town. Sounds like a grand plan, but it is for a grand occasion, as 2015 is the 900th anniversary of the town.
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Highlight: London Labour and the London Poor
London Labour and the London Poor originated in a series of newspaper articles written by the great journalist Henry Mayhew between 1849 and 1850. A dozen years later, it had grown into the fullest picture we have of labourers in the greatest city of the nineteenth century.
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Highlight: London Life in the 18th Century
This book on CD gives a great insight into how people lived in London in the 1700’s and one which later historians have often consulted as a reference in their own works. It covers just about every conceivable subject including life and death, housing and growth, immigrants and emigrants, people and trades, parish children and the uncertainties of life, plus much, much more.
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