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Programme 8
5 December 2006
Tin Tabernacles
Dylan Winter reports on the pre-fabricated, corrugated iron buildings that were thrown up to meet the demands of a rapidly urbanising society in the nineteenth century and which still survive to this day. Largely used to provide places of worship they are sometimes referred to as ‘tin tabernacles’. The following site about corrugated iron has a useful article on them together with information about the way they were constructed
Death, Grief and Poverty in Britain, 1870–1914, Julie-Marie Strange
Published by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 9780521838573 | ISBN-10: 0521838576
Richard Daniel reports on the introduction of the coypu (a South American rodent) into East Anglia in the late 1920’s for fur farming; its subsequent escape and the fifty year campaign to eradicate it from the countryside.
Family historian Paul Blake joined Nick Baker to talk about some of the common problems facing researchers when trying to decipher the trades people worked in from hand-written records.
Blake & Collins Who was your Granny’s Granny? Foulsham (2204) ISBN: 057202875X
Hurley, Beryl, (Ed.). The Book of Trades: Or Library of Useful Arts: Vol 1, Devizes, Wiltshire, Wiltshire Family History Society (1991) 63 pp. [ISBN 0951225340]
Hurley, Beryl, (Ed.). The Book of Trades: Or Library of Useful Arts: Vol 2, Devizes, Wiltshire, Wiltshire Family History Society (1992) 63 pp. [ISBN 0951225359]
Hurley, Beryl, (Ed.). The Book of Trades: Or Library of Useful Arts: Vol 3, Devizes, Wiltshire, Wiltshire Family History Society (1994) 52 pp. [ISBN 1898714029]
Raymond, Stuart A. Occupational sources for genealogists: a bibliography, Birmingham, Federation of Family History Societies (1996) 81 pp. [ISBN: 1860060366]
Waters, Colin and Titford, John. A Dictionary of Old Trades, Titles and Occupations, Countryside Books (2002) 302 pp. [ISBN 1 85306 601 X]
Vanessa has presented science and current affairs programmes for BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and Discovery and has presented for BBC Radio 4 & Five Live and a regular contributor to the Daily Telegraph and the Mail on Sunday, Scotsman and Sunday Herald.
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Vanessa has presented science and current affairs programmes for BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and Discovery and has presented for BBC Radio 4 & Five Live and a regular contributor to the Daily Telegraph and the Mail on Sunday, Scotsman and Sunday Herald. 