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The 1800s continue to be a fascinating era for movies, with Little Women being a highly regarded period drama that captured ...
In the early 1800s, pioneer families worked together on farms, learning essential agricultural skills from a young age. Children helped with chores, such as gathering eggs and feeding animals.
The logbooks also shine a light on life in general in the late 1800s in a Midwest coastal community. Digitizing the logbooks has been an arduous process, says Paul Howell, University Libraries manager ...
When the Burford Fair started in 1860, it was a way for the farming community to gather to celebrate the end of harvest and ...
A life jacket designed in the 1800s after a tragedy at sea has won a prize as the best object at a Cornish awards ceremony. This year's Cornwall Heritage Awards were held in Liskeard on Monday ...
Yet the more we retrace Austen’s eventful life in Bath on this spring day ... England’s location of choice for socialising and gossip in 1800. It’s a point that the city itself is not ...
A large turf knife thought to date back to the late 1800s has been discovered under the ground at the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh. The "exciting" artefact was found during excavation work to ...