How Our Ancestors Lived: A History of Life a Hundred Years AgoDavid Hey draws on material from the 1901 census to paint a picture of what life was really like for our ancestors a hundred years ago. He describes work, play, love and death with expert text and a unique colection of historic photographs and graphic art. Illustrated case studies tell the stories of individual lives and allow the reader to build a picture of their own family's past. |
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Births Marriages and Deaths | 24 |
THREE Migrants and Natives | 45 |
FOUR Victorian and Edwardian Houses | 65 |
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