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Cassini Popular Edition Map – Sheet 183, Yeovil & Frome – 1919

The map covers the same area, is reproduced to the same scale (1:50,000), carries the same map number and uses the same British National Grid Reference, as the corresponding Ordnance Survey Landranger© map.

£7.99

Portland

(Stuart Morris)  The Island and Royal Manor of Portland is unique in Great Britain, and even today retains an atmosphere and identity that are all its own. The author provides a portrait of the island that both brings its past…..

£4.95

Somerset War Memorials on CD

Information on thousands of servicemen and women with a Somerset connection, and the transcription of their memorials.

£12.50

A Surname Index to Parties Mentioned in Abstracts of Bath & Wells Diocesan Records: Marriage Licences & Allegations

An index originally prepared by the late Lieut Col H R Phipps for all entries found in licence books, bonds and citations for licences issued from Wells between 1583 and 1755. The index to parties does not include the bondsmen,…..

£7.20

Cassini Popular Edition Map – Sheet 193, Taunton & Lyme Regis – 1919

The map covers the same area, is reproduced to the same scale (1:50,000), carries the same map number and uses the same British National Grid Reference, as the corresponding Ordnance Survey Landranger© map.

£7.99

Dorset, A Study of Churches in, on CD

Over 300 Dorset parish churches photographed and described with brief histories together with information on the location of their records. The area covered is the historical county of Dorset, so excludes churches in Bournemouth and Christchurch which were previously part…..

£15.00

Pottery

(Penny Copland-Griffiths)  The potteries of Dorset are amongst the most enduring of all the crafts associated with the county.  The clay beds of south and east Dorset have long provided potters with a livelihood. The author traces the history of…..

£4.95

Histories of Some Parishes in Dorset and Somerset on CD

A series of articles taken from the Society’s journal ‘The Greenwood Tree’ about individual parishes. Many of the original articles were not illustrated, so the opportunity has been taken to add old and new photographs, many of them in colour.  Note…..

£15.00

Cassini Popular Edition Map – Sheet 195, Bournemouth & Purbeck – 1919

The map covers the same area, is reproduced to the same scale (1:50,000), carries the same map number and uses the same British National Grid Reference, as the corresponding Ordnance Survey Landranger© map.

£7.99

GLOSSARY OF HOUSEHOLD, FARMING AND TRADE TERMS FROM PROBATE INVENTORIES

(Published 1986) (Rosemary Milward) Derbyshire Record Society Occasional Paper No 1. A listing of words found in the wills and inventories from Chesterfield from the period 1521 to 1700, and no longer used today. Although the sources of these terms…..

£4.00

GROWTH OF BRITISH EDUCATION AND ITS RECORDS

(Published 1991) (Colin R Chapman)  A review of school education and other educational establishments, together with the records that were produced, from many hundreds of years ago, through the Education Act of 1870 to the beginning of the 20th century……

£5.00

Hatch Beauchamp Parish Registers

A transcription of: Christenings 1605-1840, Marriages 1605-1840, Burials 1605-1840.

£7.20

Prehistoric Age, The

(Bill Putnam)  The earliest man-made objects so far found in Dorset are stone axes from about 15,000 years ago, the most visible from our prehistoric past are the great Iron Age hill forts which so enrich the Dorset landscape –…..

£5.95

Railway Stations

(Mike Oakley)  Dorset once had 69 railway stations and halts: today only 23 remain open. This is the first book specifically on the county’s stations to be published, and includes photographs of all but one.  Collectively they add a unique…..

£4.95

Researching Ancestors in the East India Company Armies

(Peter A Bailey)  This book is designed to assist research into the reader’s ancestors who served in these armies, and that this work will aid their exploits to remain alive in the memory of the British people. A thoroughgoing analysis…..

£6.95

Regency, Riot & Reform

(Jo Draper)  The Regency period of the early nineteenth century was one of great contrast in Dorset.  The old order was threatened by agricultural riots and a hunger for reform. The author considers the whole period 1800-1837, and discusses the…..

£4.95