Tracing Your Textile Ancestors by Vivien Teasdale

Tracing Your Textile Ancestors by Vivien Teasdale

Vivien Teasdale's concise and informative guide to the textile industry will be absorbing reading for anyone who wants to learn about its history or to research the career of an ancestor who was a textile worker. In a clear and accessible way she takes readers through the technical, economic and social aspects of the story. She gives a graphic account of the extraordinary growth of the industry in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and of its decline in the twentieth. In the process she covers the themes and issues that family and local historians will need to understand in order to pursue their research.She describes the inventions that transformed the manufacture of cloth - the flying shuttle, the spinning jenny, the power loom - but she also gives a keen insight into working life in the factories and into the close-knit communities that grew up around them. And she introduces the reader to the variety of national and local records that are available for genealogical research - from census returns, websites and publications to company records and registers, regional archives and museums and the many other resources that can yield fascinating information about the industry and those who worked in it.

Teasdale, Vivien: - A retired teacher with a particular interest in local and social history, Vivien has published articles in family history magazines and her previous books include: _Huddersfield Mills, Huddersfield Mill Memoirs, Huddersfield in the Great War_ and _Tracing your Textile Ancestors_. She has written two books in the 'Foul Deeds' series: _Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Huddersfield_ and _Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in the West Riding_ as well as well as _Yorkshire Disasters_.

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ISBN 13	9781844158706
ISBN 10	1844158705
Title	Tracing Your Textile Ancestors
Author	Vivien Teasdale
Series	Tracing Your Ancestors Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Year published	2009-06-20
Number of pages	192
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