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The Grass Roots of English History: Local Societies in England Before the Industrial Revolution

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Product Description: In medieval and early modern Britain, people would refer to their local district as their 'country', a term now largely forgotten but still used up until the First World War. Core groups of families that remained rooted in these 'countries', often bearing distinctive surnames still in use today, shaped local culture and passed on their traditions...read more

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9781474262514 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, May 5, 2016, cover price $112.00 | About this edition: In medieval and early modern Britain, people would refer to their local district as their 'country', a term now largely forgotten but still used up until the First World War.

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9781474281645 | Reprint edition (Bloomsbury USA Academic, May 5, 2016), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: In medieval and early modern Britain, people would refer to their local district as their 'country', a term now largely forgotten but still used up until the First World War.

Surnames, DNA, and Family History

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Product Description: This book combines linguistic and historical approaches with the latest techniques of DNA analysis and shows the insights these offer for every kind of genealogical research. It focuses on British names, tracing their origins to different parts of the British Isles and Europe and revealing how names often remain concentrated in the districts where they first became established centuries ago...read more

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9780199582648 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 17, 2011, cover price $38.95

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9780198736486 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 8, 2015, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This book combines linguistic and historical approaches with the latest techniques of DNA analysis and shows the insights these offer for every kind of genealogical research.

A History of the South Yorkshire Countryside

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Product Description: ï»¿South Yorkshire has some of the most varied countryside in England, ranging from the Pennine moors and the wooded hills and valleys in the west to the estate villages on the magnesian limestone escarpment and the lowlands in the east...read more

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9781473834354 | Pen & Sword, August 19, 2015, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: ï»¿South Yorkshire has some of the most varied countryside in England, ranging from the Pennine moors and the wooded hills and valleys in the west to the estate villages on the magnesian limestone escarpment and the lowlands in the east.

Family History and Local History in England

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This is a book for those thousands of family historians who have already made some progress in tracing their family tree and have become interested in the places where their ancestors lived, worked and raised children. It emphasises the diversity and extraordinary complexity of the rural and urban communities in provincial England even before the great changes associated with the Industrial Revolution.

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9781138835962 | Reissue edition (Routledge, November 10, 2014), cover price $140.00

9780582005228 | Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd, May 1, 1987, cover price $35.95 | About this edition: This is a book for those thousands of family historians who have already made some progress in tracing their family tree and have become interested in the places where their ancestors lived, worked and raised children.

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9780582494589 | Routledge, June 8, 1987, cover price $68.95 | About this edition: This is a book for those thousands of family historians who have already made some progress in tracing their family tree and have become interested in the places where their ancestors lived, worked and raised children.

Local History in England

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Considered to be the classic introduction to the subject, this third edition has been carefully revised and updated to take account of the developments in the subject, and includes an extensive newly compiled bibliography and twice the number of illustrations as in previous editions.

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9781138835924 | Routledge, November 10, 2014, cover price $140.00

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9780582493711 | Taylor & Francis, March 1, 1985, cover price $71.95 | About this edition: Considered to be the classic introduction to the subject, this third edition has been carefully revised and updated to take account of the developments in the subject, and includes an extensive newly compiled bibliography and twice the number of illustrations as in previous editions.

A History of the Peak District Moors

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Product Description: The moors of the Peak District provide some of the finest walking country in England. The pleasure of rambling across them is enhanced by a knowledge of their history, ranging from prehistoric times and the middle ages to their conversion for grouse shooting and the struggle for the 'right to roam' in modern times...read more

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9781783462810 | Wharncliffe, April 19, 2014, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The moors of the Peak District provide some of the finest walking country in England.

A History of Sheffield

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Product Description: The city of Sheffield has long been synonymous with cutlery and steel, and most previous books have understandably concentrated on the momentous changes which industrialization wrought on the area over the last two hundred years. The figures are astonishing: as early as the seventeenth century three out of every five men in the town worked in one branch or another of the cutlery trades and, in all, Sheffield had a smithy to every 2...read more

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9781859361986 | 3 revised edition (Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc, September 15, 2012), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: The city of Sheffield has long been synonymous with cutlery and steel, and most previous books have understandably concentrated on the momentous changes which industrialization wrought on the area over the last two hundred years.

A History of Yorkshire: County of the Broad Acres

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Product Description: The historic county of Yorkshire lasted for about 1,000 years. Its administrative structure was swept away in 1974, but its distinctive identity is still clearly recognised by its own people and by outsiders. Yorkshire was the largest English county...read more

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9781859361221 | Ill edition (Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc, September 15, 2012), cover price $36.95 | About this edition: The county of Yorkshire has a varied history.

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9781859362105 | Revised edition (Carnegie Pub Ltd, September 15, 2012), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: The historic county of Yorkshire lasted for about 1,000 years.

A Monastic Community in Local Society: The Beauchief Abbey Cartulary

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Product Description: The Cartulary of Beauchief Abbey, here published for the first time with a full historical introduction and English summaries of all the Latin and French charters, is an invaluable resource for the study of relationships between a small community of regular canons with a large outreach in the English Midlands in the late Middle Ages...read more

By David Professo Hey (editor), Lisa Liddy (editor) and David Luscombe (editor)

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9781107016460 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 30, 2012, cover price $89.99 | About this edition: The Cartulary of Beauchief Abbey, here published for the first time with a full historical introduction and English summaries of all the Latin and French charters, is an invaluable resource for the study of relationships between a small community of regular canons with a large outreach in the English Midlands in the late Middle Ages.

Oxford Companion to Family and Local History

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Product Description: If like many Americans you're curious about your roots, this Companion is the perfect guide to investigating family history in the British Isles. Edited by David Hey, a leading authority, the book provides helpful information for anyone enquiring into their English, Irish, Scottish, or Welsh origins and for anyone working in genealogical research or on the social history of the British Isles...read more

By David Hey (editor)

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9780199532988 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 20, 2008, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: If like many Americans you're curious about your roots, this Companion is the perfect guide to investigating family history in the British Isles.

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9780199532971, titled "The Oxford Companion to Family and Local History" | 2 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, March 26, 2010), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: If like many Americans you're curious about your roots, this Companion is the perfect guide to investigating family history in the British Isles.

The 9 Dimensions of the Soul

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9781846940026 | 1 edition (Psyche Books, January 1, 2007), cover price $19.95

Family Names and Family History

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Product Description: Family names are an essential part of everyone's personal history. The story of their evolution is integral to family history and fascinating in its own right. Formed from first names, place names, nicknames and occupations, names allow us to trace the movements of our ancestors from the middle ages to the present day...read more

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9781852852559 | Hambledon Pr, March 1, 2001, cover price $24.95

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9781852855505 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, August 15, 2006, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Family names are an essential part of everyone's personal history.

Packmen, Carriers and Packhorse Ways

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9781843061328 | Landmark Pub Ltd, June 1, 2004, cover price $26.80

Journeys in Family History: Exploring Your Past, Finding Your Ancestors

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This text offers a wealth of reliable advice covering the repositories, the records, the research methods and more. Topics cover over 600 years, from World War I records back to The Black Death and beyond.

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9781903365618 | Natl Archives, April 30, 2004, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: This text offers a wealth of reliable advice covering the repositories, the records, the research methods and more.

How Our Ancestors Lived: A History of Life a Hundred Years Ago

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Product Description: This book, now in paperback, draws on material from the 1901 census, released to the public for the first time in January 2002, enabling the reader to look at what life was really like for ordinary people, rich and poor, one hundred years ago...read more

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9781903365212 | Pen & Sword, February 1, 2002, cover price $29.95

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9781903365557 | Natl Archives, December 1, 2003, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: This book, now in paperback, draws on material from the 1901 census, released to the public for the first time in January 2002, enabling the reader to look at what life was really like for ordinary people, rich and poor, one hundred years ago.

Medieval South Yorkshire

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Product Description: In 1979 David Hey published The Making of South Yorkshire . Twenty-five years on his ideas, and the evidence that they are based upon, require rethinking. This re-written, revised and expanded book traces the history and archaeology of South Yorkshire from the Romans to the end of the Middle Ages...read more

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9781843060802 | Landmark Pub Ltd, January 31, 2003, cover price $35.75 | About this edition: In 1979 David Hey published The Making of South Yorkshire .

A History of Penistone and District

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Product Description: This highly informative book covers the history of the ancient parish of Penistone from early times to the present day and combines a scholarly account with personal memories of the district in the 1940s. Much of the character of the ancient parish of Penistone was formed in the 19th century, when textile mills, steel works and the railways provided work for the growing population...read more

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9781903425213 | Gardners Books, August 31, 2002, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: This highly informative book covers the history of the ancient parish of Penistone from early times to the present day and combines a scholarly account with personal memories of the district in the 1940s.

The Oxford Guide to Family History

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Discusses the origins of surnames, patterns of emigration, and the family's place in society, and tells how to work with official records, including census returns, trade directories, parish registers, and estate, military, and tax records (view table of contents)

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9780198691778 | Oxford Univ Pr, July 1, 1993, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Discusses the origins of surnames, patterns of emigration, and the family's place in society, and tells how to work with official records, including census returns, trade directories, parish registers, and estate, military, and tax records

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9780192803139 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 1, 2002, cover price $26.00

9780192853059 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 1, 1996, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Who were your ancestors?

Historic Hallamshire

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9781843060499 | Landmark Pub Ltd, March 20, 2002, cover price $35.75

Packmen, Carriers and Packhorse Roads

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9781843060161 | New edition (Landmark Pub Ltd, October 24, 2001), cover price $35.75

Mesters to Masters: A History of the Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire

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Product Description: Founded in 1624, the Cutlers' Company of Hallamshire has played a crucial role in the history of Sheffield, as supervisor and regulator of cutlery and steel trades in "the steel capital of the world." This book, written by noted scholars and experts, provides a history of the company and its activities...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Clyde Binfield (editor) and David Hey (editor)

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9780198289975 | Oxford Univ Pr, July 31, 1997, cover price $168.00 | About this edition: Founded in 1624, the Cutlers' Company of Hallamshire has played a crucial role in the history of Sheffield, as supervisor and regulator of cutlery and steel trades in "the steel capital of the world.

The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History

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Offers guidance on researching local and family history, discussing how to use documentary sources, which books and journals to use, what the technical terms mean, and more

By David Hey (editor)

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9780192116888 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 1, 1996, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Offers guidance on researching local and family history, discussing how to use documentary sources, which books and journals to use, what the technical terms mean, and more

The Fiery Blades of Hallamshire: Sheffield and Its Neighbourhood, 1660-1740

Product Description: One of the least understood periods of English history is the century following the restoration of Charles II, when England was on the threshold of becoming the first industrialized country in the world. Urban historians of this period have told us much about county towns, cathedral cities and ports but little about the places that were soon to outpace these ancient centres to become our great Victorian cities...read more

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9780718513641 | Leicester Univ Pr, June 1, 1991, cover price $99.50 | About this edition: One of the least understood periods of English history is the century following the restoration of Charles II, when England was on the threshold of becoming the first industrialized country in the world.

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9780718523893 | Leicester Univ Pr, October 1, 1995, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: One of the least understood periods of English history is the century following the restoration of Charles II, when England was on the threshold of becoming the first industrialized country in the world.

Yorkshire from Ad 1000

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9780582492127 | Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd, September 1, 1986, cover price $31.95

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