Browse Items (86 total)
Sort by:
Primary Text: The housekeeper's guide to the fish market for each month of the year : and some account of fish and fisheries, to which are added a few excellent recipes for cooking some sorts of fish: Preface
An 1883 "Housekeeper's Guide" to navigating the local fish markets and the seasonality of various fish in the British Isles. The full text contains seasonal calendars and a variety of recipes for the most common fish.
How the Old St. Ives Pilchard Seines Worked
A graphic showing how the St. Ives fishermen employed "seines" to bring in catches of pilchards.
Tucking a Pilchard Seine
A photograph of St. Ives fishermen using seine nets to catch pilchards.
The "War Cloud" Collage
A Collage of Newspaper and Magazine articles on the "War Cloud"
Edwardian Maids
A group of Edwardian Maids in servants' dress in 1907.
Godvrey Lighthouse Postcard
Old Photochrome postcard probably before 1920
Excerpt from Lord Northcliffe's War Book
Lord Northcliffe's account of a civilian at war, from the perspective of a newspaper company owner
War Cloud Darkens
Newspaper Article that records the Balkan Crisis (following the Crimean War) and its leading to WWI.
Primary Source: The Management of Servants: A Practical Guide to the Routine of Domestic Service, Chapter 1: Introduction
Introduction to the manual for households employing domestic servants. Entire manual contains further reading chapters on categories such as "Households: Their Various Scales," "Engaging and Dismissing Servants," and "Opening the Door, and Announcing…
Cornish Fishermen
A photograph of local fishermen in Sennen Cove, Cornwall.