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Nooks and Corners of English Life

by John Timbs

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2I — Early English Life
  3. 3Britain Before the Roman Colonization
  4. 4The Romans in England
  5. 5Domestic Life of the Saxons
  6. 6Meals — British, Anglo-Roman, and Saxon
  7. 7II | Castle Life English Castle-Building
  8. 8III | Household Antiquities
  9. 9The Englishman’s Fireside
  10. 10Private Life of a Queen of England
  11. 11The English Housewife
  12. 12A Herefordshire Lady in the Time of the Civil War
  13. 13House-furnishing in the Middle Ages
  14. 14Dress — Personal Ornaments
  15. 15Pins and Pin-money
  16. 16Provisions
  17. 17IV — Peasant Life
  18. 18Olden House-Marks
  19. 19V | Olden Customs and Ceremonies
  20. 20Banbury Cakes — Congleton Cakes, etc.
  21. 21Horselydown Fair, in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth
  22. 22Wake Festivals in the Black Country
  23. 23Keeping Birds in the Middle Ages
  24. 24VI — Historic Sketches
  25. 25Cardinal Wolsey at Esher Place
  26. 26Traditions of Battle-fields
  27. 27Curiosities of Hatfield
  28. 28The Grand Remonstrance
  29. 29Cavaliers and Roundheads
  30. 30The Evelyns at Wotton
  31. 31Lord Bolingbroke at Battersea
  32. 32The Last of Epping Forest
  33. 33Appendix
  34. 34Strange Stories of the Animal World

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