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Everyday Life in:
The Modern & Contemporary Era
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Order of Contents
Britain
England
Scotland
Ireland
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Britain
1485 to Present
Families
Goldthorpe, J. E. – Family Life in Western Societies: a Historical Sociology of Family Relationships in Britain & North America (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1987) 295 pp. ToC
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Soldiers
De Watteville, Herman G. – The British Soldier: his Daily Life from Tudor to Modern Times (Putnam’s Sons, 1955) 285 pp. ToC
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Sports
Brailsford, Dennis – British Sport: a Social History (Lutterworth Press, 1992) 155 pp. ToC
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Smoking
Apperson, George L. – The Social History of Smoking [in Britain, 1560-1914] (London: Martin Secker, 1914) 260 pp. ToC
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1500 to 1850
At Sea
Volo, Dorothy & James – Daily Life in the Age of Sail (Greenwood Press)
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1600 to 1965
Social History
Mainwaring, James – British Social History, vol. 2 (1600 to 1965) (Odhams Press, 1965) 370 pp. ToC
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1660 to 1845
Berry, Mary – A Comparative View of Social Life in England & France, from the Restoration of Charles the Second [1660] to the Present Time, vol. 1 (1660-1789), 2 (1789-1844) new ed. (London: Bentley, 1844) ToC 1, 2
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1700 to 1900’s
Social History
Seddon, Edmund – Modern Economic History: British Social & Economic History since 1760 (MacDonald & Evans, 1966) 305 pp. ToC
Tate, Nicholas – Assignments in British Social & Economic History (Nelson, 1989) 155 pp. ToC
Walsh, Ben – British Social & Economic History in History in Focus (London: John Murray, 1997) 370 pp. ToC
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Social & Economic
Mason, Simon – British Social & Economic History: Suorces, Coursework, Questions [1752-1900] (Blackwell, 1990) 180 pp. ToC
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Economics
Hill, C.P. – British Economic & Social History 1700-1975 4th ed. (Edward Arnold, 1977) 340 pp. ToC
Walker, J. & C.W. Munn – British & Economic Social History 1700-1982 (MacDonald & Evans, 1981) 455 pp. ToC
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Popular Culture
Russell, Rex C. – From Cock-Fighting to Chapel Building: Changes in Popular Culture in Eighteenth & Nineteenth Century Lincolnshire: Documents & Commentaries (Heritage Trust of Lincolnshire, 2002) 120 pp. ToC
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Pictures
Harrison & Wells
Picture Source Book for Social History: the Eighteenth Century (Allen & Unwin)
Picture Source Book for Social History: Early Nineteenth Century (Allen & Unwin, 1964) 150 pp. ToC
Harrison & Royston
Picture Source Book for Social History: the Late Nineteenth Century (Allen & Unwin)
Picture Source Book for Social History: the Twentieth Century (Allen & Unwin, 1967) 160 pp. ToC
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Women
Hill, Georgiana – Women in English Life from Mediaeval to Modern Times, vol. 1 (Medieval, Renaissance, 1700’s), 2 (1700’s-1800’s) (London: Bentley & Son, 1896) 370 pp. ToC 1, 2
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1750 to 1850
Books
Jackson, F.J. Foakes – Social Life in England 1750-1850 (Macmillan, 1916) 355 pp. ToC
Flinn, M.W. & T.C. Smout – Essays in Social History [1750-1919], vol. 1, 2 (Clarendon Press, 1974) ToC 1, 2
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Popular Culture
Connell & Leask – Romanticism & Popular Culture in Britain & Ireland (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2011) 325 pp. ToC
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Documents
ed. Lane, Peter – Documents on British Economic & Social History I, 1750-1870 (London: Macmillan, 1968) 120 pp. ToC
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1800 to 2000
Books
eds. Corr, Helen & Lynn Jamieson – Politics of Everyday Life: Continuity & Change in Work & the Family (St. Martin’s Press, 1990) 265 pp. ToC
Casella, Eleanor & Sarah Croucher – The Alderley Sandhills Project: an Archaeology of Community Life in (Post)-Industrial England (Manchester Univ. Press, 2010) 255 pp. ToC
Hill, C.P. – British Economic & Social History 1700-1939 (London: Edward Arnold, 1964) 435 pp. ToC
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Christian Missions
Warren, Max – Social History & Christian Mission (SCM Press, 1967) 185 pp. ToC
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Sports
Mason, Tony – Sport in Britain: a Social History [1850-1989] (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1989) 365 pp. ToC
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1800’s
Short & Friendly
Chamberlin, E.R. – Everyday Life in Victorian Times (Simon & Schuster, 1993) 58 pp. ToC
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Primary Sources
Whately, Elizabeth – English Life, Social & Domestic, in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century, considered in Reference to our Position as a Community of Professing Christians (London: Fellowes, 1847) 225 pp. ToC
Waddy, Samuel – The English Echo: a Practical Guide to the Conversation & Customs of Every-day Life in Great-Britain (Leipzig: Verlag von Wilhelm Violet, 1859) 215 pp. no ToC
This was written for a German audience “to obviate the necessity of a residence in England, by throwing the reader as far as possible into the circumstances of common life.” (Intro)
Thackeray, William M. – Thackerayana, Notes & Anecdotes… Depicting humorous incidents in his school life, and favourite scenes and characters in the books of his every-day reading (Chatto & Windus, Piccadilly, 1875) 545 pp. ToC
Thackeray (1811–1863) was an English novelist and illustrator.
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Secondary Sources
Reader’s Digest – Life in the Victorian Age in Journeys into the Past (Reader’s Digest Association, 1993) 155 pp. ToC
ed. Creation, Heather – Victorian Diaries: the Daily Lives of Victorian Men & Women (London: Mitchell Beazley, 2001) 140 pp. ToC
Pres, Allan – Lost Words & Lost Worlds: Modernity & the Language of Everyday Life in Late-Nineteenth-Century Stockholm (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1990) 330 pp.
Hibbert, Christopher – Social History of Victorian Britain (Angus & Robertson, 1975) 155 pp. ToC
Jenkins, Jane & Eric Evans – Victorian Social Life: British Social History 1815-1914 (London: John Murray, 2002) 345 pp. ToC
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Social History
Flinn, M.W. & T.C. Smout – Essays in Social History [1750-1919], vol. 1, 2 (Clarendon Press, 1974) ToC 1, 2
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Social & Economic
Tonge, Neil & Michael Quincey – British Social & Economic History 1800-1900 in Documents & Debates (Macmillan, 1980) 120 pp.
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Photo Album
Quennell, Peter – The Day before Yesterday: a Photographic Album of Daily Life in Victorian & Edwardian Britain [1837-1910] (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1978) 250 pp. ToC
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Aristocratic Life
ed. Vincent, John – The Later Derby Diaries: Home Rule, Liberal Unionism & Aristocratic Life in Late Victorian England (Univ. of Bristol, 1981) 340 pp. ToC
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Families
Wood, Richard – Family Life in Victorian Britain (Wayland, 1994) 35 pp. ToC
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Growing Up
Short & Friendly
Harnett, Penelope – A Day in the Life of a Victorian Child (Heinemann, 1997) 17 pp. ToC
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Trades
Huggett, Frank E. – A Day in the Life of a Victorian Factory Worker (Allen & Unwin, 1973) 80 pp.
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Police & Soldiers
Books
Garforth, John – A Day in the Life of a Victorian Policeman (Allen & Unwin, 1974) 90 pp. ToC
Drayson, Captain Alfred W. – The Young Dragoon; or, Every Day Life of a Soldier (London: Ward, Lock & Tyler) 285 pp. ToC
This is a semi-autobiographical account of Victorian era military life.
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1800 to 1850
Book
Jackson, F.J. Foakes – Social Life in England 1750-1850 (Macmillan, 1916) 355 pp. ToC
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Economics
Clapham, J.H. – An Economic History of Modern Britain: the Early Railway Age, 1820-1850 (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1967) 635 pp. ToC
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1850 to 1900
Primary Source
Bartley, George – Domestic Economy: Thrift in Every-Day Life… (London: C. Kegan Paul, 1878) 295 pp. ToC
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Secondary Sources
ed. Chant, Colin
Science, Technology & Everyday Life, 1870-1950 (Routledge, 1989) 385 pp. ToC
Sources for the Study of Science, Technology & Everyday Life 1870-1950 (Hodder & Stoughton, 1988) 200 pp. ToC
Life in the Victorian Village: the Daily News Survey of 1891, vol. 1 (Caliban Books, 1999) 220 pp. no ToC
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Social History
Sauvain, Philip – British Economic & Social History: 1850 to the Present Day (Thornes, 1987) 340 pp. ToC
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Popular Culture
Horrall, Andrew – Popular Culture in London c. 1890-1918: the Transformation of Entertainment (Manchester Univ. Press, 2001) 285 pp. ToC
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Railroad
Gordon, W.J. – Every-Day Life on the Railroad 2nd ed. (Religious Tract Society, 1898) 190 pp. ToC
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Army
A British Officer – Social Life in the British Army (Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1899) 130 pp. no ToC
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Royalty
Sunday Express Magazine – A Week in the Life of the Royal Family (Macmillan, 1983) 145 pp. ToC
Kenyon, Edith – Scenes in the Life of the Royal Family (London: Nicholson & Sons, 1987) 270 pp. ToC
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1900’s
Books
ed. Massingberd, Hugh – The Daily Telegraph Fifth Book of Obituaries: 20th Century Lives (Macmillan, 1999) 520 pp. no ToC
Inside Flap: “The ‘lives’ chosen represent a remarkable cross-section of twentieth century experience… the shrewd character sketches tend to be of dowagers rather than dictators, boffins rather than bureaucrats, popinjays rather than philosophers.”
Moran, Joe – Queuing for Beginners: the Story of Daily Life from Breakfast to Bedtime (Profile, 2007) 285 pp. ToC
Frankenberg, Ronald – Communities in Britain: Social Life in Town & Country (Penguin, 1975) 310 pp. ToC
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Social History
Sauvain, Philip – British Economic & Social History: 1850 to the Present Day (Thornes, 1987) 340 pp. ToC
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Popular Culture
Thoms, Holden & Clayden – The Motor Car & Popular Culture in the 20th Century (Ashgate, 1998) 315 pp. ToC
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During War
ed. Atkin, Nicholas – Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Twentieth-Century Europe (Greenwood Press, 2008) 275 pp.
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1900 to 1940’s
Books
ed. Chant, Colin – Science, Technology & Everyday Life, 1870-1950 (Routledge, 1989) 385 pp. ToC
ed. Chant, Colin – Sources for the Study of Science, Technology & Everyday Life 1870-1950 (Hodder & Stoughton, 1988) 200 pp. ToC
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Social History
Flinn, M.W. & T.C. Smout – Essays in Social History [1750-1919], vol. 1, 2 (Clarendon Press, 1974) ToC 1, 2
Jenkins, Jane & Eric Evans – Victorian Social Life: British Social History 1815-1914 (London: John Murray, 2002) 345 pp. ToC
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Popular Culture
Horrall, Andrew – Popular Culture in London c. 1890-1918: the Transformation of Entertainment (Manchester Univ. Press, 2001) 285 pp. ToC
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Photo Albums
Quennell, Peter – The Day before Yesterday: a Photographic Album of Daily Life in Victorian & Edwardian Britain [1837-1910] (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1978) 250 pp. ToC
Cameron, James – Memory Lane: a Photographic Album of Daily Life in Britain, 1930-1953 (Dent & Sons, 1980) 300 pp. ToC
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Families
Family Life in Britain 1900 to 1950 (Futura, 2007) 190 pp. ToC
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Country Living
Short & Friendly
Graham-Cameron, Mike – Life in an Edwardian Country Household (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1984) 30 pp. no ToC
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War, Nurse
Laurence, E.C. – Nurse’s Life in War & Peace [in the Boer War, 1899-1902, of South Africa, and in England] (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1912) 330 pp. ToC
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1945 to 2000
Short & Friendly
Williams, Brian – Life in Post-War Britain in Unlocking History (Heinemann, 2010) 35 pp. ToC
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Books
eds. Hope, Tim & Richard Sparks – Crime, Risk & Insecurity: Law & Order in Everyday Life & Political Discourse (Routledge, 2000) 275 pp. ToC
Garfield, Simon – Our Hidden Lives: the Remarkable Diaries of Post-War Britain (Ebury Press, 2005) 540 pp. ToC
Quinn, Tom – Jam Tomorrow: Memories of Everyday Life in Post War Britain, 1945-1951 (Reader’s Digest, 2009) 250 pp. ToC
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Photo Albums
Cameron, James – Memory Lane: a Photographic Album of Daily Life in Britain, 1930-1953 (Dent & Sons, 1980) 300 pp. ToC
Green, Benny – Yesterday: a Photographic Album of Daily Life in Britain, 1953-1970 (J.M. Dent & Sons, 1982) 285 pp. ToC
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Families
Parsons, Martin – Family Life in a Christian Home (Falcon, 1972) 105 pp. ToC
Family Life in Britain 1900 to 1950 (Futura, 2007) 190 pp. ToC
eds. Warde, Alan & Nicholas Abercrombie – Family, Household & the Life-Course: Studies in British Society (Lancaster: Framework Press, 1994) 150 pp. ToC
Bradshaw, Jonathan – Lone Parent Families in the UK (HMSO, 1991) 105 pp. ToC
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Women
Tivers, Jacqueline – Women Attached: the Daily Lives of Women with Young Children (Croom Helm, 1985) 380 pp. ToC
eds. Garcia-Ramon & Monk – Women of the European Union: the Politics of Work & Daily Life (Routledge, 1996) 300 pp. ToC
Westwood, Sallie – All Day, Every Day: Factory & Family in the Making of Women’s Lives (Univ. of Illinois Press, 1985) 275 pp. ToC Back Cover
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Growing Up
Barnes, Thompson, Daniel & Burchardt – Growing Up in Step Families (Clarendon Press, 1994) 340 pp.
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Workers
Zweig, Ferdynand – The Worker in an Affluent Society; Family Life & Industry (Heinemann, 1962) 280 pp. ToC
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Elderly
ed. Altergott, Karen – Daily Life in Later Life: Comparative Perspectives (Sage Publications, 1988) 250 pp. ToC
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Schools
Webb, Simon – The Best Days of our Lives: School Life in Post-War Britain (Stroud: History, 2013) 160 pp. ToC
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Trains
Brown, Murray – A Day in the Life of British Rail (Guild Publishing, 1989) 185 pp. ToC
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Royalty
Hall, Trevor – A Year in the Life of the Royal Family (Colour Library Books, 1982) 150 pp. no ToC
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Contemporary
Finance
Langley, Paul – The Everyday Life of Global Finance: Saving & Borrowing in Anglo-America (Oxford Univ. Press, 2008) 315 pp.
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Islam
Contemporary
Gole, Nilufer – The Daily Lives of Muslims: Islam & Public Confrontation in Contemporary Europe (Zed, 2017) 365 pp. ToC
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England
1750 to 1900’s
Social History
Hibbert, Christopher – The English: a Social History 1066-1945 (Guild, 1987) 845 pp. ToC
Briggs, Asa – A Social History of England (Penguin, 1985) 310 pp. ToC
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Popular Culture
ed. Harris, Tim – Popular Culture in England, c. 1500-1850 (Macmillan, 1995) 300 pp. ToC
Golby & Purdue – The Civilisation of the Crowd: Popular Culture in England 1750-1900 (Sutton, 1999) 215 pp. ToC
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Anthology of Primary Sources
Morgan, R.B. – Readings in English Social History from Pre-Roman Days to A.D. 1887 in 1 vol. (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1923) 685 pp. ToC
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Villages
Davies, M.F. – Life in an English Village: an Economic & Historical Survey of the Parish of Corsley in Wiltshire [1660-1906] (Hobnob Press, 2013) 320 pp. ToC
Harris, Mary – Life In An Old English Town [Middle Ages to 1898] (Sonnenschein, 1898) 385 pp. ToC
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1750 to 1800
Fletcher, Ronald – The Parkers at Saltram, 1769-89: Everyday Life in an Eighteenth-Century House (British Broadcasting Corporation, 1970) 230 pp. ToC
Adkins, Roy & Lesley – Jane Austen’s England [1775-1817]: Daily Life in the Georgian & Regency Periods (Penguin Books, 2014) 455 pp. ToC
Parreaux, Andre – Daily Life in England in the Reign of George II [1738–1820]
Hall, H.R. Wilton – Social Life in England through the Centuries (Blackie & Son, 1927) 250 pp. ToC
Synge, M.B. – A Short History of Social Life in England (Hodder & Stoughton, 1922) 445 pp. ToC
Creighton, Louise – Social History of England (London: Rivingtons, 1887) 150 pp. ToC
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1800’s
Primary Source
An Eton Boy – A Day of My Life; or Every-day Experiences at Eton (London: Sampson Low, 1877) 185 pp. ToC
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Secondary Sources
Mitchell, Sally – Daily Life in Victorian England 2nd ed. (Greenwood Press, 1996; 2009) 330 pp. ToC
Wilson, Laura – Daily Life in a Victorian House (Hamlyn, 1993) 50 pp.
Hibbert, Christopher – The Horizon Book of Daily Life in Victorian England (American Heritage Publishing Co., 1975) 120 pp. ToC
Poole, Daniel – What Jane Austen Ate & Charles Dickens Knew: from Fox Hunting to Whist–the Facts of Daily Life in 19th-Century England (Touchstone, 1993) 405 pp. ToC
Hall, H.R. Wilton – Social Life in England through the Centuries (Blackie & Son, 1927) 250 pp. ToC
Creighton, Louise – Social History of England (London: Rivingtons, 1887) 150 pp. ToC
Hughes, Kristine – The Writer’s Guide to Everyday Life in Regency & Victorian England from 1811-1901 (Writer’s Digest Books: 1997) 260 pp. ToC
Life in Charles Dickens’s England
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Rural
Robinson, Geoffrey – Hedingham Harvest: Victorian Family Life in Rural England (London: Constable, 1977) 205 pp. no ToC
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Historical Fiction
Challiss of Uppham: Norfolk Family Life in the Victorian Era (Matador, 2012) 390 pp. no ToC
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1800 to 1850
Books
Adkins, Roy & Lesley – Jane Austen’s England [1775-1817]: Daily Life in the Georgian & Regency Periods (Penguin Books, 2014) 455 pp. ToC
Parreaux, Andre – Daily Life in England in the Reign of George II [1738–1820]
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Families
Huxley, Gervas – Lady Elizabeth & the Grosvenors: Life in a Whig family, 1822-1839 (Oxford Univ. Press, 1965) 200 pp.
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1850 to 1900
Primary Sources
Books
Bowman, Anne – The Common Things of Every-Day Life: a Book of Home Wisdom for Mothers & Daughters (London: Routledge & Co., 1857) 180 pp. ToC
Beever, W. Holt – The Daily Life of our Farm [in England, 1865-1870] (London: Bradbury, Evans & Co., 1871) 330 pp. ToC
Louis, Arthur – “Dollars or Sense?” A Tale of Every-Day Life in England & America (Brentano, 1886) 385 pp. ToC
Stanford, Charles – Home & Church: a Chapter in Family Life at Old Maze Pond (Hodder & Stoughton, 1871) 125 pp. ToC
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Photos
Marsh, John – Life in Old Lakeland: a Photographic Collection (Lancaster: Datesman, 1986) 60 pp.
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Social History
McGurk, J.J.N. – Social History—England 1850-1900 (Allman & Son, 1966) 130 pp. ToC
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Schools
Pascoe, Charles E. – Everyday Life in our Public Schools: Sketched by Head-Scholars of Eton, Winchester, Westminster, Shrewsbury, Harrow, Rugby, Charterhouse… (London: Griffith & Farran [1880?]) 330 pp. ToC
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1900’s
Families
Benson, Richard – The Valley [Dearne Valley]: a Hundred Years in the Life of a Family (Bloomsbury, 2014) 540 pp.
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Sex
Book
Szreter, Simon – Sex before the Sexual Revolution: Intimate Life in England 1918-1963 (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2010) 465 pp. ToC
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1900 to 1950
Books
ed. Chant, Colin – Science, Technology & Everyday Life, 1870-1950 (Routledge, 1989) 385 pp. ToC
Hartley, Marie & Joan Ingilby – Yorkshire Album: Photographs of Everyday Life 1900-1950 (London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1990) 185 pp. ToC
Hall, H.R. Wilton – Social Life in England through the Centuries (Blackie & Son, 1927) 250 pp. ToC
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Nuns
Raphael, Francis – The Daily Life of a Religious (Sands & Company, 1914) 120 pp. ToC
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1950 to 2000
Book
Lacey, Roy – Cowpasture: the Everyday Life of an English Allotment (London: David & Charles, 1980) 155 pp. ToC
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1960’s
The Beatles
ed. Schultheiss, Tom – A Day in the Life: the Beatles Day-By-Day, 1960-1970 (Pierian Press, 1980) 355 pp. ToC
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Farming
eds. Bullen, Sheppy & Watson – Farming day by day – the 1960s: as recorded in the Daily Mail by John Winter… (Old Pond, 2002) 206 pp. no ToC
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Drug Users
Contemporary
Book
Neale, Nettleton, Pickering – The Everyday Lives of [40] Recovering Heroin Users [in Southern England] (RSA Projects, 2012) 200 pp.
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Sex
Whole of History
Bloch, Ivan – Sexual Life in England Past & Present tr. William H. Forstern (London: ARCO Publications, 1958) 675 pp. ToC
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1900’s
Szreter, Simon – Sex before the Sexual Revolution: Intimate Life in England 1918-1963 (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2010) 465 pp. ToC
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City of London
Whole or Most of History
Short & Friendly
Toht, Betony & David – Daily Life in Ancient & Modern London (Runestone Press, 2000) 65 pp. ToC
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Books
Richardson, John – London & its People: a Social History from Medieval Times to the Present Day (Barrie & Jenkins, 1995) 360 pp. ToC
Porter, Roy – London: a Social History (Harvard Univ. Press, 1995) 440 pp. ToC
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1800’s
Books
Flanders, Judith – The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens’ London [1812-1870] (Thomas Dunne Books, 2014) 555 pp.
Bartlett, David – London by Day & Night: or, Men & Things in the Great Metropolis (Hurst, 1851) 330 pp. ToC
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1824 to 1974
Cowell, Frank R. – The Athenaeum: Club & Social Life in London, 1824-1974 (Heinemann, 1975) 200 pp. ToC
Williams, S.C. – Religious Belief & Popular Culture in [the district of] Southwark [in London] c. 1880-1939 (Oxford Univ. Press, 1999) 220 pp. ToC
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Between the World Wars
Willmott, Phyllis – Growing Up in a London Village: Family Life between the Wars (Portway Large Print, 1995) 200 pp. ToC
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1960’s
Davies, Hunter – A Life in the Day: Memories of Sixties London, lots of writing, the Beatles and my beloved wife (Simon & Schuster, 2017) 385 pp.
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Scotland
Whole History
Rogers, Charles – Social Life in Scotland from Early to Recent Times, vol. 1, 2, 3 (Edinburgh: Paterson, 1884) 420 pp. ToC 1, 2, 3
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1800 to 2000
Popular Culture
eds. Walker & Gallagher – Sermons & Battle Hymns: Protestant Popular Culture in Modern Scotland (Edinburgh Univ. Press, 1990) 260 pp. ToC
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1800’s
eds. Griffiths & Morton – A History of Everyday Life in Scotland, 1800 to 1900 (Edinburgh University Press, 2010) 335 pp. ToC
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1800 to 1850
Book
McCausland, Joan – The Diary of Robert Lees: Early Nineteenth Century Life in Old Stonehaven (Aberdeen & North-East Scotland Family History Society, 2006) 55 pp. ToC
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1850 to 1915
Book
Stewart, Charles – Haud Immemor: Reminiscences of Legal & Social Life in Edinburgh & London 1850-1900 (Blackwood & Sons, 1901) 205 pp. ToC
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Women
Smitley, Megan – The Feminine Public Sphere: Middle-Class Women in Civic Life in Scotland, c. 1870-1914 (Manchester Univ. Press, 2009) 185 pp.
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1900’s
Orkney Islands
Sinclair, David – Tomorrow is a Whole New Day… Life on an Orkney Island like no other (Orcadian, 2015) ToC
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1950 to 2000’s
Hebrides Islands
McPhee, John – The Crofter & the Laird (Daunt Books, 2017) 150 pp.
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Theater
Peter, Bruce – Scotlandʼs Splendid Theatres: Architecture & Social History from the Reformation to the Present Day (Polygon, 1999) 255 pp. ToC
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Ireland
1750 to 1800
eds. Crawford, W.H. & B. Trainor – Aspects of Irish Social History 1750-1800 (Belfast, 1969) 225 pp.
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1900 to 2000’s
Popular Culture
McLoone, Martin – Film, Media & Popular Culture in Ireland: Cityscapes, Landscapes, Soundscapes (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2008) 220 pp. ToC
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1900 to 1950
A Real Paddy – Real Life in Ireland : or, the day and night scenes, rovings… of Brian Boru, esq…. exhibiting a real picture of characters, manners, etc., in high and low life in Dublin and various parts of Ireland… (London: Methuen, 1904) 360 pp. ToC
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1950 to 2000
Photos
A Day in the Life of Ireland: Photographed by 75 of the World’s Leading Photojournalists on One Day, May 17, 1991 (Collins, 1995) 220 pp. no ToC
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Families
Article
Walsh, William & Molly Allen – “Marriage & Family Life in Ireland: A Contemporary Study” Annual Convention of the American Association for Counseling & Development (Univ. of Northern Colorado, April, 1991) 25 pp. no ToC
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Contemporary
Daly, Mary & Grace Kelly – Families & Poverty: Everyday Life on a Low Income (Policy Press, 2015) 230 pp. ToC
Upton, Pat – City Portraits: 100 Portraits of Everyday Life in Dublin (Dublin, 2013) 170 pp. ToC
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City of Belfast
Youth
Jenkins, Richard – Lads, Citizens, & Ordinary Kids: Working-class Youth Life-styles in Belfast (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983) 170 pp. ToC
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City of Dublin
1500 to 1900
Collins, James – Life in Old Dublin [1500-1900], Historical Associations of Cook Street, Three Centuries of Dublin Printing, Reminiscences of a Great Tribune (Dublin: Duffy, 1913) 215 pp. ToC
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Around 1900
Fennell, Desmond – Bloomsway: a Day in the Life of Dublin [in 1904] (Poolbeg, 1990) 185 pp.
This work covers the single day (June 16, 1904) and location which James Joyce’s Ulysses is occupied with.
A Real Paddy – Real Life in Ireland : or, the day and night scenes, rovings… of Brian Boru, esq…. exhibiting a real picture of characters, manners, etc., in high and low life in Dublin and various parts of Ireland… (London: Methuen, 1904) 360 pp. ToC
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1950 to 2000
Throops, Elizabeth – Net Curtains & Closed Doors: Intimacy, Family & Public Life in Dublin (Bergin & Garvey, 1999) 185 pp.
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