LINKS - Social History: Clothing, Food, Value of Money

[Berlin-Bob]

Some links for web-sites about Social History.

These LINKS-Topics have been been compiled from the links submitted by RootsChatters.
Many thanks to everyone who has contributed. 
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Money How Much is that Worth Today?

Ever wondered how much £6 (six pounds) in 1880 would be worth today in real terms? This site will work it out for you:
http://www.measuringworth.com/calculators/ppoweruk/

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http://www.moneysorter.co.uk/calculator_inflation.html

Find out what the equivalent value of money would be today. Works for any date after 1800, e.g £100 in 1850 worth £9,411 today!

Here's a good un though it's a wee bit out of date.
http://www.eh.net/ehresources/howmuch/poundq.php
For those who want to know how much money was worth yon years back.  Useful when you are looking at wills.

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Costumes
Costumes from 1635-1935 may help you identify or date photographs. The site is worth a visit!
http://www1.xe.net/~mbone/webtree/costumes/index.htm


The Great Exhibition of 1851
To find out about the Exhibitors, including Doulton Pottery from Staffordshire have a look at Bob Speel's pages on the Victorians including lots of other Victorian Links. http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/speel/otherart/grtexhib.htm


Provincial Token Coins Tokens were used to trade almost anything from the 17th century through to the 19th Century from Coal to Coffee.
http://www.predecimal.com/p9tokens.htm

Mining Tokens
http://www.mining-memorabilia.co.uk/Tokens.htm

The History of Advertising
http://www.hatads.org.uk

Trust Archive
The conservation of the Uk's leading brands and communications heritage for preservation and study.

A Vision of Britain Through Time

A vision of Britain between 1801 and 2001. Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.

An interesting site that contains information from the census returns from 1810 to 2001 by area. View charts on anything from housing conditions to Industry and compare what life was like for your ancesters.

You can search by town or map to find placenames and discover how the population has grown and how the place has changed over the years..lots of snippets for historians or just some facts for Family History researchers. Worth a visit.

ChartistAncestors
http://www.chartists.net/

For anyone with Chartist ancestry Mark Crail's site has lots of info and news items.

The Georgian Index- everything Georgina (photos, information, etc.)

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Just found a great site - www.foodtimeline.org
American in focus but containing loads of stuff of interest to the British social and family historian.

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