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Research and Other Resources For Historical Novels - Books and F
act Checking Sources - England
By: TheFantastical Date: December 19, 2017, 2:27 pm
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Hello! Having failed a number of times to find out some small
and mostly likely unimportant but interesting bit of historical
fact, I know how hard it can be to A. know if what you read is
right and B. Find out anything at all.
So here are some books to look up:
Food in England by Dorothy Hartley
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Her love of the infinite variety of English cooking and her
knowledge of British culture and history show why our food
should never be considered dull or limited. There are unusual
dishes such as the Cornish Onion and Apple Pie, and even recipes
for fungi, from common field mushrooms to puffballs. She
describes some delicious puddings, cakes and breads, including
an exotic violet flower ice cream, an eighteenth century coconut
bread and Yorkshire teacakes. The finely-executed line drawings
that accompany many of the recipes are more than just beautiful;
they inform the cook about different varieties and techniques of
food-handling.
Water in England by Dorothy Hartley
HTML https://www.amazon.co.uk/Water-England-Dorothy-Hartley/dp/0356006220<br
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Details the history of water in England. Not sure about what
else as it is very hard to find discription of it.
The Land of England: English Country Customs Through the Ages by
Dorothy Hartley
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Deatils custums other country side habits.
Lost Country Life: How English country folk lived, worked,
threshed, thatched, rolled fleece, milled corn, brewed mead...
by Dorothy Hartley
HTML https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Country-Life-threshed-thatched/dp/0394510364<br
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This beautiful and heartfelt encyclopedia of rural life in the
middle ages gets its special charm because the author, as a
little girl, knew shepherds and laborers who lived in a way
hardly changed through the centuries. She shares that land, now
lost forever, where man was the measure of all things.Using as a
framework a 16th-century calendar of advice for farmers, she
takes us month by month through the country-dweller's year, and
opens up the customs and traditions of a vanished rural life.
[font=verdana]Medieval Costume and How to Recreate It
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/>Dorothy Hartley
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Clear-cut and accurate in its guidance, this volume depicts
medieval clothes and accessories not as inanimate museum
exhibits but as items of vital interest and well worth
recreating.
Unlike conventional costume histories, which tend to classify
their contents by era, this volume portrays the clothing of the
twelfth through 15th centuries according to the wearer's social
class.
Here are the garments of royalty, clerics, doctors, merchants,
musicians, knights, artisans, farmers, and laborers — all
magnificently illustrated with images from tapestries and
illuminated manuscripts as well as in drawings and diagrams.
Helpful advice covers choosing fabrics; placement of seams;
draping and folding garments; how to walk, dance, and climb
stairs in the cumbersome unfamiliarity of flowing attire; and
even the best methods of storage.
[font=verdana]Mediaeval Costume and Life - A Review of Their
Social Aspects Arranged Under Various Classes and Workers - With
Instructions for Making Numerous Types of Dress by Dorothy
Hartley
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It is all in the title really.
The Country Mans England by Dorothy Hartley
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This book records English country life at a time when farming
and rural occupations were closely entwined, dependant on each
other for their economic survival.
[font=verdana]Life and Work of the People of England - A
Pictorial Record from Contemporary Sources - The Seventeenth
Century [/font][font=verdana]by [/font]
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The object of this series is to give a view of the Social life
of each century through the eyes of the people who lived in it.
We have tried to select records suitable for general and school
use, which has meant examining some thousands of MSS., prints,
drawings and reference books, and only by careful selection and
examination could the results be condensed into an inexpensive
series. A general introduction outlines the characteristics of
the century, and a series of notes gives points of detail.
Lost World by Dorothy Hartley
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Hartley was commissioned by the Daily Sketch newspaper to write
articles describing the English countryside, old English crafts
and customs, country foods and country ways (with the odd
excursion to Wales, Scotland and Ireand). She did her research
in the British Museum (she had by then written several books of
social history) and on the ground, travelling around the country
on her sturdy bicycle, staying with her subjects or under
hedges. These articles were to form her knowledge-bank which she
used in several books that came out during the 1930s and beyond
(particularly Heres England, 1935), but they have never been
seen as they were first written. We offer a selection, with a
foreword by Lucy Worsley (who is presenting the BBC TV
documentary on Hartley to be transmitted this autumn) and
introduced by the writer Adrian Bailey (who befriended Dorothy
Hartley in her later life). The 60 articles are illustrated with
some of Hartleys own snapshots which she kept as notes for
future reference. The subjects range widely on matters as
various as thatching, clog-making, eels, the country chemist,
marram grass, sand shoes, crabs, sheep shearing,
spring-cleaning, country kitchens, ploughing, weather lore, and
elevenses.
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