Archive CD Books:Other Books on CD:Lifestyle
Sections on apparatus, aims, plates and films, exposure, Treatment of Special Subjects, Developers, Development, Fixing, Washing, and Varnishing Negatives, Intensifies and Reducers, Preparing Negatives for Printing, Printing Papers, Printing, Mounting and Framing, Photography in Hot Climates, Lantern Slides and Enlarging, etc.
Plates and illustrations.
155 pages plus 56 pages of fascinating illustrated advertisements.
Price: £8.50 £9.99 Including VAT at 17.5%
A wonderfully fascinating book, just applicable today as it was when it was written, or in the times relating to our ancestors.
Superstitions and customs relating to days and seasons; Marriage superstitions and customs; Divination and Omens, and lots more.
Download the full contents and index free (PDF file) Price: £12.13 £14.25 Including VAT at 17.5%
A delightful book that relates the every-day story of barge life in the mid 1800s.
If you have ancestors who were canal men, then this book will give you a really fascinating insight into their lives at the time.
Illustrated Price: £8.50 £9.99 Including VAT at 17.5%
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%
Two delightful little pocket books designed to be of assistance to the young gentlewoman.
Contains information which explains the rates of wages, Hackney cab fares, as well as odd snippets of music, songs and poetry. Also there are lists of people in government departments, banking and insurance and many other walks of life, plus space for diary and note taking.
A kind of pre-Victorian File-O- Fax and a wonderful example of what life was like for the young lady about town! Price: £12.13 £14.25 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%
These three large volumes describe the very early history of Freemasons across the world, from their origins in trades unions in Mediaeval times, their decline due to lack of raison d'etre in the Reformation and return in 1717 until 1887 when the book was published.
This set of books chronicles every aspect of Freemasonry, the antiquities, symbols, customs and constitutions of every Grand Lodge, not only in England, but also across Europe, Asia and North America.
They include illustrations of English Provincial Grand Masters, the seals, tokens and arms of France, Germany and England. Timelines and synopsis pullout pages enable easy reference and a good overall view, as do the statistics on the number of lodges and their members.
Containing in depth chapters on The Strict Observance, The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, Rite of Misraim, The Cabbala and Mysticism, History of GLs of England from 1688 onwards, The Quarter Coronati, The Ancient Mysteries, The old Charges of British Freemasons, their statutes, Mason's Marks, Sea and Field Lodges and much more. These books spread light on a history often clouded with uncertainty.
Price: £25.49 £29.95 Including VAT at 17.5%
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 details about this wonderful old 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%
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%
