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  • Servants' Stories

    Life Below Stairs In Their Own Words, 1800–1950

    by Michelle Higgs ...
    True accounts by domestic servants though a century and a half of British history revealing what their lives were really like—includes illustrations.Step into the world of domestic service and discover what life was really like for these unsung heroines (and heroes) of society. Between 1800 and 1950, the role of servants changed dramatically, but they remained the people without whom the upper and ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tracing Your Ancestors in Lunatic Asylums

    A Guide for Family Historians

    by Michelle Higgs ...
    Series series Tracing Your Ancestors
    A concise handbook for genealogical research into patients of British mental institutions from the 18th to the early 20th centuries.An expert in British Victorian history, Michelle Higgs helps readers uncover information about relatives whose lives are too often forgotten. Higgs concentrates on the period from the eighteenth century to 1948 when the National Health Service was founded. Using ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Visitor's Guide to Victorian England

    by Michelle Higgs ...
    Series Book 1 - A Visitor's Guide
    An "utterly brilliant" and deeply researched guide to the sights, smells, endless wonders, and profound changes of nineteenth century British history ( Books Monthly, UK).Step into the past and experience the world of Victorian England, from clothing to cuisine, toilet arrangements to transport—and everything in between. A Visitor's Guide to Victorian England is "a brilliant guided tour of Charles ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tracing Your Medical Ancestors

    A Guide for Family Historians

    by Michelle Higgs ...
    Series series Tracing Your Ancestors
    A guide to genealogical resources for researching medical professionals in your family history, or tracing the medical histories of your ancestors.Despite burgeoning interest in all aspects of history and ancestry, medicine has rarely been considered from the point of view of family genealogy. This is the main purpose of Michelle Higgs's accessible and authoritative introduction to the subject ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Life in the Victorian and Edwardian Workhouse

    by Michelle Higgs ...
    Life in a workhouse during the Victorian and Edwardian eras has been popularly characterised as a brutal existence. Charles Dickens famously portrayed workhouse inmates as being dirty, neglected, overworked and at the mercy of exploitative masters. While there were undoubtedly establishments that conformed to this stereotype, there is also evidence of a more enlightened approach that has not yet ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Life in the Victorian Hospital

    by Michelle Higgs ...
    Throughout the Victorian period, life-threatening diseases were no respecter of class, affecting rich and poor alike. However, the medical treatment for such diseases differed significantly, depending on the class of patient. The wealthy received private medical treatment at home or, later, in a practitioner's consulting room. The middle classes might also pay for their treatment but, in addition, ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Prison Life in Victorian England

    by Michelle Higgs ...
    It is a commonly held assumption that all Victorian prisons were grim, abhorrent places, loathed by their inmates. This is undoubtedly an accurate description of many English prisons in the nineteenth century However, because of the way in which prisons were run, there were two distinct types: convict prisons and local prisons. While convict prisons attempted to reform their inmates, local prisons ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tracing Your Servant Ancestors

    A Guide for Family Historians

    by Michelle Higgs ...
    Series series Tracing Your Ancestors
    A resource for family historians to explore the lives and careers of their servant ancestors.While there are popular and academic books on servants and domestic service, as well as television dramas and documentaries, little attention has been paid to the sources family historians can use to explore the lives and careers of their servant ancestors. Michelle Higgs's accessible and authoritative ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Medieval Military Medicine

    From the Vikings to the High Middle Ages

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    A study of how doctors and surgeons treated the brutal injuries and illnesses suffered by medieval combatants.Soldiers of the Middle Ages faced razor-sharp swords and axes that could slice through flesh with gruesome ease, while spears and arrows were made to puncture both armor and the wearer, and even more sinister means of causing harm produced burns and crush injuries. These casualties of war ... Read more

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    How Perpetrators of the Holocaust Cheated Justice and Truth

    by Donald M McKale ...
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