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Cumbrian and social history
Advertising
Alcohol
- gin, the Cumbrian connection
- drunkenness, the Georgian view
Animals
Burials – a Victorian public health risk
Christmas in Victorian Penrith
Coats of arms/heraldry
Crime
- see also punishments
- affray and riots in Kingstown
The Port Carlisle Dandy
Diseases and medicine in Georgian times
Diseases and cures in Victorian times
- Quack medicines and ‘miracle cures’
- Scarlet fever in the 1800s
- Consumption, a far from romantic disease
Education
- Brunswick Square school, Penrith
First World War
- – 1918 deaths
- Brunswick Square Penrith
- the Pilkington brothers
- mustard gas
- Tom Telford
- Prisoners of war
Haaf net fishing at Port Carlisle
Humour – Victorian
Industrial Revolution (the), and occupations
Job titles old and new
Life expectancy in 1776 and 1845
Lodging houses and the spread of disease
Love – a breach of promise
Maritime tragedies
- the SS West Cumberland
- the brig Robert Burns
- in early 1813
Militia
- the American invasion of Whitehaven
- Wicked Jimmy Lowther and the Westmorland Militia
Carlisle Museum
Mining – Wellington Pit
Need-fire – a Celtic tradition
New Year traditions down the centuries
Oil on troubled waters – a Cumbrian experiment
Pasche eggs – a Cumbrian tradition
Politics
- John Tweddle
- 1868 election riots
Punishments
Railways
- The Yanwath railway explosion
Sanitation debated
- middens and rubbish
Slavery
Suicide – attitudes towards
Tea – a social history
Temperance theory
Theatre – Georgian
Thirlepolles – a mysterious ancient delicacy
Travel in the 1700s
Twelfth Night and twelfth cakes
Unfortunate deaths – a few examples
Wages
Weather in 1881
Window tax or duty
Workhouse life and food supplies
Family history tips and advice
Assumptions, the danger of
Bankruptcy and family history resources
Cumbrian surnames
Death certificates and their uses
Fake ghost proves the importance of sound research
Perils on online family trees
Wills and their uses for family history research
