Archive CD Books:History, Topography & Genealogy Books on CD:Great Britain:England:All England:Lifestyle
As Rod Neep is retiring, Archive CD Books Ltd will cease trading and the company will be closed down. The company is not being sold. We expect the close to take place on 30th September 2007, after which this on-line catalogue and ordering will no longer be available.
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INCLUDING THE RURAL AND DOMESTIC RECREATIONS, MAY GAMES, MUMMERIES, SHOWS, PROCESSIONS, PAGEANTS, AND POMPOUS SPECTACLES, FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE PRESENT TIME.
Includes 140 illustrations.
A really fascinating book for those who would like to understand the activities of their ancestors through the centuries.
Fully searchable CD
Price: £12.13 £14.25 Including VAT at 17.5%
Descriptions of all manner of surgical procedures in minute detail, as they were performed in the early eighteenth century.
From treatment of carbuncles to amputation of limbs, via child-birth, bleeding and how to put in an artificial eye. Interspersed with illustrations of the instruments used to perform these grim medical procedures.
An absolutely fascinating book which really does bring our ancestor's trials and tribulations into sharp focus.
Almost 900 pages of testimonies and interviews, covering various types of factories and work in a wide variety of places in Britain.
An amazing and fascinating insight into conditions of work and peoples' lifestyle in 1842 in their own words.
Did your ancestor work in a factory?
Put meat on the bare bones of your family history by understanding how they lived and worked. More details and examples of interviews Price: £16.98 £19.95 Including VAT at 17.5%
A book such as this gives you a valuable insight into the world of the ordinary Victorian worker's life with details of wages, working conditions and many other subjects relating to the workplace. Price: £12.13 £14.25 Including VAT at 17.5%
An account of the position of the poor in legal matters in England and Wales and a study in the inequality in the administration of justice where they are concerned, and of the remedies which have been attempted and suggested. Price: £12.13 £14.25 Including VAT at 17.5%
Both of these wonderful books (see descriptions below) on one CD. Price: £21.70 £25.50 Including VAT at 17.5%
A wonderful history of the poor in the villages of the period. It deals with subjects such as enclosure, which had a dramatic effect upon village life and also with the Labourers Uprising of 1830.
An absolutely fascinating read which allows you to understand the hardships and the problems that the ordinary person faced during these times. Price: £15.11 £17.75 Including VAT at 17.5%
Although similar to 'The Village Labourer' (see above) this book deals with the history specific groups of workers. Its contents include:
The miners of the Tyne and Wear, cotton workers, woollen and worsted workers, Spitalfields silkweavers, frame work knitters and also has sections dealing with Nottinghamshire, Lancashire and Yorkshire Luddites. Price: £15.11 £17.75 Including VAT at 17.5%
The author's intention was "to try to get glimpses of the social life which passed to and fro between London and the provinces…I shall show our ancestors of all ages in all kinds of costumes...busy at the nothings which make travelled life, eating, drinking, flirting, quarrelling, delivering up their purses, grumbling over their bills."
Interesting too are the historical details he gives of each place and descriptions of the Inns along each of the journeys. A very humorous and informative insight into travel in bygone times. A great way to know more about how our ancestors of all periods lived.
Price: £7.50 £8.81 Including VAT at 17.5%
A wonderful insight into the use of the English language in the 1700s.
In two parts:
"The first, proper for beginners, shewing a Natural and Easy Method to pronounce and express both common words, and Proper Names; in which particular Care is had to shew the Accent, for preventing Vicious Pronunciation".
"The Second, for such as are advanced to some Ripeness of Judgment, containing Observations on the Sounds of Letters and Diphthongs; Rules for the true Division of Syllables, and the Use of Capitals, Stops, and Marks: With large Tables of Abbreviations, and Distinctions of Words; and several Alphabets of Copies for Young Writers."
"To which is added an Appendix containing many additional lessons in Prose and Verse; first in words of One Syllable only, and then mixed with words of Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, and Seven syllables: And further improved with new Fables and Cuts".
Price: £9.79 £11.50 Including VAT at 17.5%
A very sweet book with charming colour pictures and songs from the 19th and 20th century. Price: £6.00 £7.05 Including VAT at 17.5%
Everyone has heard of it. But this edition is very special indeed. Mrs Beeton died in 1865, four years before this second edition of her famous book was published. Subsequent editions were published by Ward Lock, as her husband sold the rights to the book, but what happened is that the new publishers removed huge sections of the original recipes, and proudly(!) announced that all of those left in had been tested and tried and altered to "improve" them! In other words, did not contain Mrs. Beeton's originals. In addition, the new publishers added more and different sections on household management, and therefore the next edition in 1873 was effectively a totally different book.
Our edition, scanned from the original 1869 book, contains well over a thousand pages, and contains some lovely colour plates, quite unusual for a book of this date. It is an absolute gem, and we have really gone to town with extensive bookmarks in the Acrobat PDF file. We offering this CD for just GBP 14.25 - and like the original, we expect it to be a "best seller". More about this wonderful book Price: £12.13 £14.25 Including VAT at 17.5%
A lovely book, by J. W. Kirton (undated, but probably c1865)
Chapters include: Getting a home, Courting and popping the question, Advice to a young man seeking a wife, Advice to a young woman seeking a husband, Advice to young people seeking a house to live in, The mutual duties of married life, Special duties of the husband, Special duties of the wife (she has the expenses section), Four lessons from the landlady to the wife. The public house the rival of home.
A wonderful insight into values, standards and life in Victorian times. Price: £9.79 £11.50 Including VAT at 17.5%
Lots of illustrations of the skeleton, muscles and body are included complete with labels. The book is a treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by simple medicines. It examines the general causes of diseases and their links with children, clothing, food, exercise, unwholesome air, intemperance, anger, fear, grief and religious melancholy. It offers remedies to Fevers, Pleurisy, Consumption, Small Pox, Measles, Asthma as well as problems less well known to doctors today such as Swooning.
Interesting is Buchan's cure for Hiccups, he suggests that if they result from hard digestion the patient should take a dram of any spirituous liquor whilst if they are caused by poison, milk and oil must be drunk. However if it precedes an inflammation of the stomach, the patient should be bled!
A small sized book but with nearly 800 pages of the most up-to-date remedies known to doctors in the 1800's it's a big and interesting read. Price: £8.50 £9.99 Including VAT at 17.5%
A collection of four books on one CD, including "Five Ambulance Lectures", "Home Nursing", "First Aid to the Injured, the authorised text book of St. John's Ambulance" and an earlier "First Aid to the Injured" dated 1887.
These books tells us the medical practices and theories of First Aid in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. If your ancestor worked as a nurse or for the St John's Ambulance then these books will be a treasure, informing you about their life and work.
The books are simple to read and very informative, the "Home Nursing" book can be applied to home nursing today as its suggestions are still practical and relevant.
Price: £8.50 £9.99 Including VAT at 17.5%
This is an alphabetical table of herbs and plants written by Nich. Culpepper in the mid 1700s. He describes all the herbs in great detail, what they look like, where and when they grow, it then explains what the beneficial properties of each herb are and the illnesses they can ease.
"The Black Alder Tree -The inner bark thereof boiled in vinegar is an approved remedy to kill lice, to cure the Itch and take away scabs, by drying them up in a short time. It is singular good to wash the teeth, to take away the pains, to fasten loose, to clean them and keep them sound."
Although this is an incredibly old book, the contents are as fascinating now as ever, especially when more and more people are turning to alternatives medicines for solutions. Fully searchable
Detailed descriptions of plants and herbs with medicinal qualities, how they were prepared and their use and effects. By reading this book you come to understand your ancestors' lives a little better.
We have scanned all of the stunningly beautiful illustrations in full colour
This is an absolutely beautiful book, which is full of richly coloured illustrations.
English coins are intimately connected with the general history and progress of the country, of which they form interesting and informative monuments.
A coin proves several things about the people who issued it and their state of civilisation through the artwork, people and places with which they are decorated. In this delightful book the author describes coins from the Ancient World, prior to the establishment of Roman coins until the reign of Victoria. The coins of Saxons, the Commonwealth, Cromwell and every Monarch are all thoroughly investigated.
Published in 1854 this book covers the history of coinage in Britain and across the empire from the 'ring money' of the ancient tribes before the Roman invasion through to the mid-Victorian period.
Filled with illustrative plates like the one pictured here it is fascinating to see the coins which our ancestors would have used on a daily basis. Price: £12.13 £14.25 Including VAT at 17.5%
This book contains about 70,000 names of people who have been advertised for to claim property and money. Dougal & Co. used to publish these lists and charge for a copy of the original advertisement. These are people who have died without leaving wills, and with no known beneficiaries. People in all parts of the world from 1650 up until the early 1900s are listed in this book.
If no beneficiary could be found, then the money went to the Probate Office of that country. It still remains there unclaimed.
In cases such as these, for example, if the person was British, the money goes to the Crown, and records are kept at the Principal Probate Office in London.
Unclaimed estates can still be claimed, no matter how old!
John Taylor of Kentucky was found to be the heir to the estate and earldom of Tyrone, valued at millions of pounds. A Stourbridge carpenter became the beneficiary of £25,000. The estate can be worth anything from a few pounds to millions.
To claim an estate, one needs to prove a blood relationship with the deceased, by means of birth and marriage certificates. Price: £9.79 £11.50 Including VAT at 17.5%
A fascinating collection of contemporary articles and letters giving a remarkable insight to life at the time. All six volumes covering 1711-12 Price: £25.49 £29.95 Including VAT at 17.5%
Wonderful details of social and local manners and customs, plus details of games as our ancestors would have played them Price: £12.13 £14.25 Including VAT at 17.5%
A highly entertaining book which details festival days and seasons, superstitions and witchcraft. Price: £12.13 £14.25 Including VAT at 17.5%
An excellent book which describes the meaning and origins of English words, dialects and proverbs, including place names and surnames. Price: £12.13 £14.25 Including VAT at 17.5%
Published in two huge volumes. From the title page:
The Every-Day Book; or everlasting calendar of popular amusements, sports, pastimes, ceremonies, manners, customs and events incident to each of the three hundred and sixty-five days, in past and present times....... including accounts of the weather, rules for health and conduct, remarkable and important anecdotes, ..... antiquities, topography, biography, natural history...... For Daily Use & Diversion. Price: £17.87 £21.00 Including VAT at 17.5%
A fabulous book which sets out contemporary thinking on a quite enormous range of subjects such as smallpox innocculation, the relative merits of hot and cold bathing, the dangers of sleeping in the sun as opposed to working in it and much more besides
Highly entertaining! Price: £12.13 £14.25 Including VAT at 17.5%
Published in 1888
Take any day of the year, and find out an immense amount of detailed history and events that happened on that day. For special days such as Easter, Christmas and other important holidays and festivals there is even more, in the way descriptions of traditional customs.
Two huge volumes reproduced as facsimiles on CD, with every page of the original books scanned, and then formatted for viewing just like a real book using Adobe Acrobat Reader. Price: £17.87 £21.00 Including VAT at 17.5%
A history of dress from the very early Britons with their flint knives and arrowheads to the end of the 18th century with it's bonnets and fans.
What differentiates this book from others of it's type is the second volume which is a glossary including pictures. From this you get a sense not only of how the clothes were worn but why they were worn and where the idea and name came from. A fascinating book which brings to life the realities of dress and therefore the culture of our ancestors.
"SPANGLES. Small circular ornaments of burnished metal, stitched on various articles of dress. They are first noticed in the time of Henry VII, and were used by ladies to decorate the hair, bodice, petticoat, gown and frequently to add a glitter to the lace edging of gloves."
Fabulous descriptions of English styles of dress dating from the 11th century until 1830, with lots of beatiful illustrations.
Essential reading for all family historians as it helps us all to imagine how our ancestors will have dressed on a day to day basis. Price: £15.11 £17.75 Including VAT at 17.5%
A fascinating account of country life in the 1800s. Essentially about life in Buckinghamshire, but equally applicable to many other counties in England. Lots of anecdotes and stories about real people.
Book kindly loaned to the project by Barney Tyrwhitt-Drake. Price: £9.79 £11.50 Including VAT at 17.5%
Coloured title page with illustration of Brambletye House. To the reader dated June 1861. Contents, New Year's Day, St Distaff's Day, St Blaze's Day, Palm Sunday, Morris Dance etc. Pall Mall - The Game and the Street, Whitebait, Personal Recollections of Brambletye (Sussex), Domestic Arts and Customs including Frummety or Furmety, Medieval Furniture, Milkmaids in London etc., Curiosities of Bees and Celebrated Gardens. This book has as the title describes "Something for Everybody". 312 pages with index. Price: £9.79 £11.50 Including VAT at 17.5%
Published in 1760, and in the old fashioned typestyle typical of the period. A fascinating collection of a great number of testimonies of Quakers. Wonderful reading for anyone with Quaker ancestors. Price: £9.79 £11.50 Including VAT at 17.5%
A lovely pocket reference book, in the old type style, including a description of England, places in the world, description of London & Westminster, companies in London, prices of the works of bricklayers, masons & carpenters, rates of post letters, stage coaches and carriers in England & Wales, Archbishops & Bishops, places at Court with salaries. Arithmetical and monetary tables. Coins of different countries. Accounts of arts and societies, Abstract of the history of England. Gardener's calendar. Perpetual Almanack. Lots of tables, including the value of any quantity of goods etc by the yard, ell, pound, ounce, etc. A table of universal use, demonstrated by the solution of various questions in multiplication, division, reduction, measuring, gauging and surveying. (Ready reckoners). Discounts of branches of customs on goods imported, Table of salaries and wages. Interest tables. Rules for coachmen, rates and orders for carmen and watermen.... and so on. Wonderful! Price: £12.13 £14.25 Including VAT at 17.5%
Everything for the farmer of 1849, from the supply of machinery and seed to hints and tips on farming practices at the time. A wonderful resource for those with farming ancestors. Contains many fascinating advertisements.
Also included on the CD are the original hand written personal notebooks and account books of farmers, dating from the 1830s to the later 1800s, and a beautifully descriptive letter of 1851 from a farmer in Clipstone Nottinghamshire to friends who had emigrated to the United States. Real original source material of the period. Price: £9.79 £11.50 Including VAT at 17.5%
A complete history of Bournville, a new town created in 1831 for the workers at the famous chocolate factory. The aim, which was very successful, was to create a complete living environment with housing, recreational facilities, etc. The book contains lots of early drawings of early Birmingham, and through to photographs of Bournville and its workers. Price: £9.79 £11.50 Including VAT at 17.5%
A collection of several small books relating to Bournville, and the lifestyle of its workers and staff. Price: £9.79 £11.50 Including VAT at 17.5%
