For what it's worth: We shouldn't try to recapture the lives of those we can never truly know anything about; instead, try to write down everything you remember of your own childhood and the life you lead at present. We think we will always know everything about this time we live in, but so many of our personal details will not be recorded. For example, how many of us keep birthday cards? Memos? Emails? Receipts from the supermarket? What's your favourite flower? Yet these trivia are what make our lives, not the bare BMD bones. I'm only in my 50s but I can remember a completely different world to the one I live in now; smoky pubs, pea soupers, broken biscuits in their own box in Woolworths, days out in Bognor parking where we liked, no television and a valve radio - the list is endless and I'm not sure if my children would believe me! Georgina Colwell 10821 ----- Original Message ----- From: "SFHG Members Interests" <interests@sfhg.org.uk> To: <SFHG@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 1:51 PM Subject: [SFHG] Reply : life in the ....century > There's > A Social history of England 55 BC to AD 1215, by Ralph Arnold. > Publisher: London: Constable; Toronto: Longmans Canada, [1967]. > > I thought there were intended to be further volumes through the years but > cannot find them. > > There are a variety of series for occupations and / or within periods, eg > Victorian. > > You've set yourself a very large task. > > Best wishes > > Judy Excell > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rod Blaker" <rod.blaker@gmail.com> > To: <SFHG@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 1:31 PM > Subject: [SFHG] life in the ....century > > >> Hi folks >> >> My goal with this genealogy is make make a gift of a story - the story of >> my >> ancestors and their lives in their times - to my descendants, relatives >> and >> their extended families. >> >> To do that I need a very good grasp of daily life as the centuries roll >> by - >> life on the farm, life as a house carpenter and so forth. From >> availability >> of horses, to nature of farming, to dentistry and health care and >> education >> and leisure time (was there any?) >> >> I read the suggestion of "Larks Rise" but that is I presume a snapshot of >> a >> particular moment. Does anyone have a suggestion about the type of >> reading >> that can take me from say 1000 to 2000 ? Not the life of the wealthy, >> nor >> the abject poor - the common man - and woman and child. Nasty, brutish >> and >> short, I understand; but a bit more detail needed. >> >> Thanks >> >> Rod >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> SFHG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SFHG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > >