THE GUIDE TO RESEARCHING HISTORIC GREAT BRITAIN & THE LONDON ALMANAC
Together for the First Time on ONE CD!
Kristine Hughes, author of The Writers Guide to Everyday Life in Regency and Victorian England, is now offering two of her most popular research books - The Guide to Researching Historic Great Britain AND The London Almanac - available together on one cd! Both titles, updated and offered together for the first time - are available on a single CD for just $25.00, shipping included. The Guide to Researching Historic Great Britain contains all the information you'll need to research any area of British history. The extensive `Bibliography’ section offers more than 130 pages containing over 2,300 book titles, complete with publishing details, conveniently arranged into categories that include:
Anglo Saxon – Medieval, Architecture, Arms and Armor, Autobiographies, Banking and Currency, Childhood, Commerce, Crime and the Courts, Customs & Culture, Diaries, Etiquette, Fashion, Food, Furniture/Interior Design, Georgian England, Heraldry, Ireland, Journalism/Publishing, London History, Maps, Marriage, Mourning, Medicine, Military/Naval History, Housekeeping, Nobility/Royalty, Painters/Painting, Regency England, Scotland, Servants, Sex, Society/Social Life, Sports/Recreation, Stuart/Restoration England, Theatre, Titles/Peerage, Transportation/Travel, Tudor/Elizabethan,
Victorian England, Wales.
The Guide to Researching Historic Great Britain also features an indispensable `Research on the Web’ section that will lead you to primary source materials and information held in archives, museums, libraries, universities, local public record offices and newspapers, as well as providing sources for historic maps and topography, images and special interest websites. Whatever your area of interest/study, you’ll find leads to the information you seek here.
Also on the same CD - THE LONDON ALMANAC - Containing 150 pages of information, The London Almanac is a year by year timeline of the people, places, things and events that influenced life in London and beyond from 1600 to 1899. Authors, academics, researchers, students and history buffs will find themselves returning again and again to this easy to use tool in order to locate necessary details such as annual weather conditions, political and military events, notable deaths and inventions to such trivia as which musical performances and literary publications occurred, which shops and businesses stood where and what popular amusements were available in the City. An indispensable reference source, researchers will make The London Almanac their first stop in finding an overview of any year from 1600 to 1899. Authors will bring their books to life by peppering their novels with the details of actual people and events. History and trivia buffs will be entertained for hours by the entries and footnotes!
Sample entries include:
1815
*Mathew Wood is Lord Mayor.
*Thunderstorms daily 2 5 May. Winter of 1815/16 is Severe.
*Corn Law enacted.
*Income Tax is repealed. It is resumed in 1842.
*The debt of Great Britain reaches 745 million pounds.
*The Apothecaries Act forbids unqualified doctors to practice in Britain
*Napoleon escapes from Elba and lands at Cannes 1 March with a force of
1,500 men, marching on to Paris.
*In April, the Duke of Wellington assembles troops at Brussels, Belgium and prepares to confront Napoleon’s army.
*Wellington defeats Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo 18 June.
*Wellington and the Allied commanders march into Paris 7 July King Louis XVIII returns to Paris 8 July.
*Napoleon is exiled to St Helena 8 August.
*Nelson's Lady Hamilton dies.
*Sir Walter Scott publishes his "Guy Mannering."
*The “Present State of Roadmaking” is written by surveyor John McAdam, who builds roads with crushed stone.
*Jane Austin's "Emma" is published.
*British geologist William Smith draws the first geological map of England.
*The United Service Club, for senior army officers, is formed in Albemarle Street.
*Humphry Davy invents the miner's safety lamp.
*Switzerland officially declares itself as a neutral country.
*John Doulton founds Doulton and Company in Pall Mall.
*A display of Napoleonic reclics opens at Egyptian Hall. This includes the Emperor's bullet proof carriage.
*Comedian John Bannister lives in Gower Street until 1836.
*Author Anthony Trollope is born at No 6 Keppel Street.
*Lord Cochrane is imprisoned in King's Bench Prison for stock exchange fraud. During an escape attempt, the rope he is using breaks and he falls 20 feet, but manages to escape.
*Seven American prisoners are killed by British soldiers under the command of Captain Thomas G. Shortland at Dartmoor Prison 6 April. A jury verdict on 8 April decides "justifiable homicide."
*The exiled Duc of Orleans takes a house in Twickenham until 1870. It later becomes known as Orleans House.
*Banker Thomas Childs, age 80, marries his second wife, 37 year old Irish actress Harriet Mellon. He dies in 1822, leaving his immense fortune to his widow, who, five years later, marries the 26 year old ninth Duke of St. Albans.
*Steamers are first seen on the Thames.
Praise for Ms. Hughes’ Books:
“A superb publication!”
David Webb, The Bishopsgate Institute, London
“A book writers will find enormously helpful . . . I find it jolly useful!”
Dr. David Parker, former curator, Dickens House Museum, London
“An excellent resource, especially for locating hard to find facts!”
Author Janelle Taylor
“A superb resource for writers . . .I wish it had been available when I started writing.”
Author Mary Jo Putney
“A fabulous resource . . .Ms. Hughes’ attention to detail will thrill you.”
Author Stella Cameron
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