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[Gadget]

Pat

Looking at your areas, anything on the Civil War/Commonwealth under Cromwell would be of interest 


It might be worth having a look here to start with:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/civil_war_revolution/

Gadget

[Peewee]

I found Lisa Picard's book "Elizabethan London" fascinating. First published in 2003 by Phoenix. Its not a dry history book by any means as it gives snippets of information about all manner of life in London in the Elizabethan period. Chapters cover The River, Main streets, Health, Illness and medicine, foreigners, clothes and beauty, food and drink, family life and marriage, education, crime, the poor etc. I am sure your local library could get you a copy

[millymcb]

You could take a look at Google books at http://books.google.com/

There are lots of old books digitised either partially or in full, plus snippets from other books which may be of interest. 

Milly

[buddha]

Many thanks to you both for your suggestions.  I will certainly follow them up Regards Pat

[Peewee]

A correction to my reply yesterday, as I have just found the book I mentioned at the back of my bookcase. Its Liza with a Z not an S so its Liza Picard and the actual book title is Elizabeth's London with the sub title of Everyday life in Elizabethan London. ISBN number 0 75381 757 8. I am sure that you wont be disapppointed when you read it.

[Old Bristolian]

A fascinating study of what life was really like as opposed to precoceptions is "The World we have lost" - I'm sorry  I've forgotten the author but you should find it easily in bibliographies. It establishes many interesting points (mostly deally with the seventeenth century) such that ordinary folk did not live in extended family groups, but simple nuclear families, and that most couples got married in their mid twenties, rather than younger as literature often indicates. it is a history textbook & can be dry at times - but very useful none the less

Steve

[Gadget]

 

Listed on my original listing:

Laslett, P  The World  We Have Lost
Yet another classic. This time focusing on the period after the Middle Ages and before the Industrial Revolution. It is a detailed account of family, community and class in pre-industrial England. Worth re-reading.

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,158256.0.html


Gadget

added - this was the book that I was thinking of - tis on my shelf up here 

[buddha]

Many thanks to you all.  Will be paying a visit to W.H.Smith as fortunately I have some gift vouchers.  Looks to be some very interesting books suggested. Thak you Pat    COMPLETED WITH THANKS