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Covering the period from 1920 to the 1970s, this work includes
true-life stories of men and women who made their living in the
Bradford mills.
This fully revised second edition of Rachel Bellerby's best-selling
guide is essential reading if you want to find out about your
Yorkshire ancestors. As well as tracing when your ancestors were
born, married and died, she shows you how can explore how they
lived, worked and spent their leisure time. She introduces readers
to the many sources that hold a wealth of information about
Yorkshire's past, and describes the records you can find in
archives and online which will bring your research to life.
Whatever you would like to discover more about, from fairground
travellers to Romany gypsies, from working deep underground in a
mine to making a living from the North Sea, there is so much to
learn. The many different archives that welcome family history
researchers are explored here and explained. A new chapter covering
the growing number of Yorkshire family history websites has been
added along with a range of new illustrations. The contact details
of the sources listed in the first edition of the book have been
revised and new sources and relevant organizations have been added.
Dozens of places, from tiny museum archives to large research
centres, are open for your research, and a wealth of information is
now accessible through the internet. Tracing your Yorkshire
ancestors has never been more exciting.
In 1850, the population of Bradford was 103,000, having soared from
34,000 just ten years earlier. The town was on the cusp of
worldwide fame as, over the coming decades, it would grow to become
the wool capital of the world. Women of Bradford explores what it
was like to be a woman in Bradford between the years 1850 and 1950
- a century of incredible change as the town became a city and
women's roles, both at home and in society, altered dramatically.
Bradford-born author Rachel Bellerby explores a wide range of
sources to share incredible tales of Bradford women of all classes,
using oral testimonies, newspaper reports and official
documentation. This is the story of the struggles and prejudice
which women overcame, a celebration of the achievements of Bradford
women, and a fresh new look at a history which, until now, has
focused largely on men.
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