Manufacturer: Xlibris Corporation
Written By: David Charles Cole

Sir Francis Hill continues in this volume his majestic history of his native city. Medieval Lincoln appeared in 1948, and was reissued in 1965; Tudor and Stuart Lincoln was published in 1956. This third volume, first published in 1966, covers the period of the industrial revolution and parliamentary reform, the time of' the Napoleonic war and the post-war depression. As in previous volumes, local ...

Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
Written By: Francis Hill

National identity cards are in the news. While paper ID documents have been used in some countries for a long time, today's rapid growth features high-tech IDs with built-in biometrics and RFID chips. Both long-term trends towards e-Government and the more recent responses to 9/11 have prompted the quest for more stable identity systems. Commercial pressures mix with security rationales to ...

Manufacturer: Routledge
Written By: Colin J Bennett

John W. (Bill) Parsons is holding a copy of the Parsons & Tyler family genealogy book that he organized using research that his sister Dorothy provided. He also composed a book for the family, which is in the Library of Congress and the local historical society of Wayne and Ontario Counties in New York State. This book was a transcription of the letters that his great-great grandfather Lieut. ...

Manufacturer: Wasteland Press
Written By: John W. Parsons

Your family’s history is part of your history too. Perhaps learning more about your family will inspire you to be a different person today. Or, perhaps your quest will help open the door to questions that you may have. For others, a quest into their family ancestry is one that will provide them with the tools to pass down information to their own children and then their grandchildren as well. ...

Manufacturer: James J. Jones
Written By: Dawn White

Manufacturer: Alderbury & Whaddon Local History Research Group
Written By: David Algar, Ken Grinstead, Brian Johnson

Photographer Joseph Hughes opened a studio in Bromsgrove in June 1897 and over the next ten years he built up a catalog of at least 2,000 glass negatives. The Hughes Collection was unseen for 100 years but now has been made available to the general public through various funding bodies. Included in this book are images of street scenes, groups, events, and ...

Manufacturer: The History Press
Written By: Terry O'Brien

All over the Canvey there is evidence of its history, from the pillboxes built during the World War II to fairground attractions that show its prominence as a Victorian resort. Following on from the first two collections of archive images, this new volume revisits the Canvey Island of yesteryear with the use of 200 fascinating photographs, postcards, and other ephemera. As well as ...

Manufacturer: The History Press
Written By: Geoff Barsby

The Cast of Characters as recorded in the Old Testament has taken many years to complete. The idea for this study guide came to me quite by accident. While reading the Old Testament, I was lost trying to remember who begat whom. I am sure that you have felt much the same way. Using a family tree software program, I began to record the basic information to make my study easier to understand. As I ...

Manufacturer: CrossHouse Publishing

First published in 1928 as At Cheltenham Spa, this study is a celebration of this historic spa town at the height of its fashionable splendor. Starting with a brief history from the Roman Conquest up to the accession of George III, it focuses on the late 18th and early 19th centuries, beginning with the visit of King George in 1788. As a spa town it was ...

Manufacturer: The History Press
Written By: Edith Humphris, Captain E. C. Willoughby