If you want to find out about Lancashire's history, and particularly if you have family links to the area and your ancestors lived or worked in the county, then this is the ideal book for you. As well as helping you to trace when and where your ancestors were born, married and died, it gives you an insight into the world they knew and a chance to explore their lives at work and at home.
If you want to find out about Lancashire's history, and particularly if you have family links to the area and your ancestors lived or worked in the co...
Immerse yourself in the vanished world inhabited by Austen s contemporaries. Packed with detail, and anecdotes, this is an intimate exploration of how the middle and upper classes lived from 1775, the year of Austen s birth, to the coronation of George IV in 1820. Sue Wilkes skillfully conjures up all aspects of daily life within the period, drawing on contemporary diaries, illustrations, letters, novels, travel literature and archives. Were all unmarried affluent men really 'in want of a wife'?Where would a young lady seek adventures?Would taking the waters at Bath and other spas kill or...
Immerse yourself in the vanished world inhabited by Austen s contemporaries. Packed with detail, and anecdotes, this is an intimate exploration of how...
