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History of Aerial Photography and Archaeology:

by Martyn Barber
A history of aerial photography showing how aerial photography came to be such an important tool for archaeologists over the last 100 years.
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Kew At War

by David Blomfield & Christopher May
An illustrated book decribing the experiences of the residents of Kew during the Second World War.
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Land and Window Tax Assessments

by Jeremy Gibson, Mervyn Medlycott and Dennis Mills
Information available on Land Tax includes, lists year by year of the names of proprietors of land in each parish as well as the names of the actual occupiers. It also gives some indication of the economic standing of those named.
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Latin for Local and Family Historians.

by Denis Stuart
Designed to help the beginner to understand Latin this starts by dealing with basic grammar and goes on to deal with the structure and cocabulary of records used in local and family research.
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Living Back-to-Back

by Chris Upton
Back-to-backs were once the commonest form of housing in England, home to the majority of working people in Victorian cities, but they have now almost entirely vanished from our urban townscape.
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Local Historian's Glossary of Words and Terms

by Joy Bristow
Researching local history can be absorbing and rewarding, but often key documents (such as Manorial and Estate papers, probate inventories and parish registers) are full of archaic or Latin words, terms and phrases which require translation.
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Local Newspapers 1750-1920 : England and Wales, Channel islands, Isle of Man

by Jeremy Gibson, Brett Langston and Brenda W Smith
Local newspapers provide a huge amount of information for family and local historians. In this guide, Gibson and his helpers tell us what local newspapers are still available, and where they can be found.
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London The Autobiography

by Jon E Lewis
In London: The Autobiography the life of the capital is told, for the first time, by those who made it and saw it at first hand.
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London Under

by Peter Ackroyd
Explores the rich underbelly of our capital city.
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London's Docklands

by Fiona Rule
This fascinating insight into London's docklands is the result of extensive research into an part of London that has intrigued the author for many years.
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