B151

Breaking New Ground (2010)

Ed. J Cooper & J Burchardt

With fifteen chapters, this 272 page book is published by FACHRS. Based on a nationwide research project, Breaking New Ground examines the importance of allotments in UK History.
Price includes a CD ROM containing the results of the findings in both database and spreadsheet format.

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B152

Swing Unmasked (2005)

Ed. Michael Holland

A 312 pages book published by FACHRS about the Captain Swing Riots (1830-1832). Also includes the Swing download (replacing the former CD ROM) containing some 3,521 documented names of people associated with the reports of Swing protest incidents, this is a valuable resource for local and family historians.

B153

The British Almshouse: New Perspectives on Philanthropy ca 1400-1914 (2016)

Ed. Nigel Goose, Helen Caffrey & Anne Langley

The book of over 400 pages, published by FACHRS, presents new findings about the contribution made to the support of the elderly by British almshouses. Thematic chapters describe almshouse benefits, buildings, clothing, community, gardens, possessions, rules, scandals and status.

B154

School and Community: Family and Community history through the prism of school logbooks (2018)

Ed. Professor Michael Drake

This booklet of 75 pages, published by FACHRS, is a brief insight into the immeasurable possibilities that can be discovered from researching school logbooks.

B155

The Home Front 1914-1915: Vol.1 Care, Comfort and Support (2019)

Gill Clark

This booklet of 111 pages, published by FACHRS, has a diverse range of chapters including ones on pastimes, entertainment, managing needs, support mechanisms and caring for those returning from the Front.

B156

The Home Front 1914-1915: Vol.2 Industry, Agriculture, Food and Rationing (2020)

Christine Seal

This booklet of 57 pages, published by FACHRS, includes chapters on the impact of industry and commerce, employment for women, agriculture and the role of women, dealing with rationing and food management, and a review of the evidence presented.

B157

The Home Front 1914-1915: Vol.3 Recruitment and Volunteers (2022)

Anne Wilkinson

This booklet of 33 pages, published by FACHRS, uses a range of locations in Great Britain to discuss recruitment and how employers, schools, councils, churches and other local groups contributed to the war effort.

B159

British County Pauper Lunatic Asylums 1861-1901 (2025)

Joan Reid and Julie Moores

This book of 196 pages, published by FACHRS, uncovers the voices and experiences of marginally positioned individuals through patient case-studies. Using examples from across a range of locations in Britain, the book makes an important contribution to ‘history from below’ and the unpacking of paupers’ experience of relief systems.

B160

Communities of Dissent 1850-1914 (2023)

Ed. Chris Skidmore and Kate Tiller

This book of 151 pages, published by The Chapel Society, uses a range of locations in Great Britain to discuss dissent in Great Britain. These include an introduction to the ‘heyday’ of chapel society, Society and kinship networks on Bodmin Moor, a profile of Woolwich and Plumstead, the Revd. Gertrude von Petzold, and how FACHRS contributed a wealth of research to the project.