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Servants Abroad - Travel Journals By British Working People, 1765-1798

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 Servants Abroad presents the journals of four British domestic servants who travelled to continental Europe in the eighteenth century. With a full introduction, these texts overturn the standard view of the 'Grand Tour' by revealing the experiences and impressions of the majority who travelled in service.
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The Diaries Of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, The Seventh Earl Of Shaftesbury - Vol. 1: 1825-1845, Part One

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 The Diaries of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury (1801-85): Vol. 1, Part One demonstrates the emergence of Lord Ashley, the 'Poor Man's Earl', as a passionate evangelical reformer and determined advocate for a range of domestic and international issues and causes.
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The Cantelowe Accounts - Multilingual Merchant Records From Tuscany, 1450-1451

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 The Cantelowe Accounts record a large sale of English wool in Pisa and Florence in 1450-51 and offer the earliest evidence of an English merchant using Italian as a second language. The text features a unique mixed-language code (combining Middle English, Latin, Anglo-French and Tuscan) and an unprecedented near total use of Arabic numerals.
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The Household Accounts Of Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443-1509) - From The Archives Of St John'S College, Cambridge

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 Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443-1509) was the mother of Henry Tudor (1457-1509). This edition selects the principal household accounts from the period (1498-1509) during which she ran her own household entirely independent of her third husband, Thomas Stanley, earl of Derby.
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The Diaries And Letters Of Lord Woolton 1940-1945 - War On The British Home Front

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 The first comprehensive survey of Lord Woolton's wartime role, based on selections from Diaries and Letters 1940-1945, covering his time as Minister of Food (1940-1943) and less familiarly, as Minister of Reconstruction (1943-1945).
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Business And Family In The North Of England During The Early Industrial Revolution - Records Of The Lives Of Men And Women In Trade, 1788-1832

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 This volume of annotated primary sources focuses on the lives of tradesmen and women in the northern 'industrial' and commercial towns of Leeds, Sheffield, Manchester and Liverpool from 1788 to 1832. Insights are offered into their domestic, familial, 'personal' and spiritual lives, their business dealings and links with their wider communities.
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The Elizabethan New Year'S Gift Exchanges, 1559-1603

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 This is a fully-annotated and cross-indexed edition of the 24 extant New Year's gift rolls of Queen Elizabeth 1, now transcribed and collected in one volume for the first time. Important appendices include biographical sketches of participants in the exchanges, a listing of gift items, and a glossary of unusual or obsolete words.
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Bishop Wake'S Summary Of Visitation Returns From The Diocese Of Lincoln 1706-15, Part 2 - Outside Lincolnshire

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 Transcriptions of the summary returns illuminate the life of the Archdeaconries of Huntingdon, Bedford, Leicester and Buckingham in the early eighteenth century, providing detailed information about the villages: their population, religious affiliations, schooling, charities, and church attendance.
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Bishop Wake'S Summary Of Visitation Returns From The Diocese Of Lincoln 1706-15, Part 1 - Lincolnshire

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 Transcriptions of the summary returns illuminate the life of the Archdeaconries of Stow and Lincoln in the early eighteenth century, providing detailed information about the villages: their population, religious affiliations, schooling, charities, and church attendance.
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The Chronicles Of John Cannon, Excise Officer And Writing Master, Part 2 - 1734-1743 (Somerset)

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 This edition is the first full scale study of John Cannon and his chronicles. Known to some as 'the poor man's Pepys', Cannon wrote a remarkably candid autobiography, during a crucial period of change in British history. Part 2 covers the time Cannon spent as a schoolmaster in Glastonbury.
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The Business And Household Accounts Of Joyce Jeffreys, Spinster Of Hereford, 1638-1648

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 Joyce Jeffreys' accounts overturn our perceptions of the social, cultural and economic world of the 17th century spinster. The unusual wealth of detail reveals her business dealings, mainly as a moneylender (and how she suffered financially in the civil war), and also her vibrant kinship network which linked her with prominent local people.
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Nehemiah Grew And England'S Economic Development - The Means Of A Most Ample Increase Of The Wealth And Strength Of England, 1706-7

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 The book is a scholarly edition of a manuscript written in about 1706 which has not previously been published. The main text considers England's economic potential, and puts forward ways in which that potential could be maximized.
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Essex Pauper Letters, 1731-1837

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 As personal testimonies of people claiming relief, often written in a 'private' tone, pauper letters allow deep insights into the living conditions, experiences and attitudes of the labouring poor in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This edition contains some 750 of these letters, all those presently known to survive in the county of Essex.
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Essex Pauper Letters, 1731-1837

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 The immensely rich archives from the administration of the English poor law before 1834 include letters to the overseers of the poor that came from the poor themselves. This edition contains 750 of these letters, and aims to demonstrate the importance of this source, both for the social historian and for the comparative study of literacy.
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The Diary Of Ralph Josselin, 1616-1683

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 The Diary of Ralph Josselin 1616 -1683.
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The Diaries Of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, The Seventh Earl Of Shaftesbury: Vol. 2, Part One

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The Diaries Of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, The Seventh Earl Of Shaftesbury: Vol. 2, Part One - 1846-49

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 Lord Ashley (later the 7th Earl of Shaftesbury) is perhaps best known to social historians as the â€˜Poor Manâ€™s Earlâ€™, the aristocratic philanthropist whose concern for suffering and the oppressed victims of Victorian â€˜progressâ€™ saw him champion a range of social, industrial, educational, and health reforms.
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The Diaries Of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, The Seventh Earl Of Shaftesbury: Vol. 2, Part Two

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The Diaries Of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, The Seventh Earl Of Shaftesbury: Vol. 2, Part Two - 1850-55

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 Lord Ashley (later the 7th Earl of Shaftesbury) is perhaps best known to social historians as the â€˜Poor Manâ€™s Earlâ€™, the aristocratic philanthropist whose concern for suffering and the oppressed victims of Victorian â€˜progressâ€™ saw him champion a range of social, industrial, educational, and health reforms.
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The Cartulary Of The Knights Of St. John Of Jerusalem In England - Secunda Camera, Essex

by Michael Gervers

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 This critical edition of charters from the great Hospitaller cartulary of 1442 provides a wealth of evidence for the study of both the Hospitallers and Templars in the twelfth to fourteenth centuries.
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The Amity Papers, 1690 - The Siege Of Limerick And Franco-Irish Mercantile Networks

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 The Amity Papers, 1690 reproduces 74 documents seized from the Irish vessel Amity trading with France at the height of the Williamite War (1689-1691).
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The Diaries Of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, The Seventh Earl Of Shaftesbury - Vol. 1: 1825-1845, Part Two

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 The Diaries of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury (1801-85): Vol. 1, Part Two covers the period 1843-45 and presents his discussions of topics such as religious questions (including here the intense debates over Tractarianism); industrial working conditions, especially for children; and the work of the lunacy commission.
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Oliver Hart And The Rise Of Baptist America

by Eric C. (Senior Pastor, Senior Pastor, Sharon Baptist Church, Savannah, Tennessee) Smith

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Navigating The Old English Poor Law - The Kirkby Lonsdale Letters, 1809-1836

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 At the heart of this book are the stories, in their own words, of ordinary people who fell into need and required the help of the local state in the early nineteenth century. We read their hopes, fears, detailed experiences of illness, and aspects of material conditions across a spectrum from nakedness and starvation to homelessness and eviction.
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Courting Migrants - How States Make Diasporas And Diasporas Make States

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The Chemical Philosophy Of Robert Boyle - Mechanicism, Chymical Atoms, And Emergence

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 The Chemical Philosophy of Robert Boyle examines the relationship between Robert Boyle's experimental work in chemistry and his commitment to mechanical philosophy.
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