This #scarce #LocalHistory of the first 200 years of #Wareham, #Massachusetts was published in 1989 on the occasion of its 250th anniversary. #Illustrated with #B&W #photos and #maps. $65. #Booksky #SocialHistory #NewEngland

This #scarce 2007 #book about #GrandManan is back in stock. #Illustrated with #B&W #photos. $25. #Booksky #LocalHistory #SocialHistory #NewBrunswick #fishing

We've sold several copies of this 1976 #book about #politics in #NewBrunswick over the years! $15. #Booksky #ArthurTDoyle #JamesKiddFlemming #Premier #corruption #scandal #LocalHistory #SocialHistory

A closer look at what I suspect may be great grandparents on my dad's side. These are the sort of things you find clearing out homes and I genuinely don't know what to do with them, it seems wrong to just bin them #heirlooms #socialhistory #familyhistory

A couple of imposing framed pictures I discovered recently. Photo doesn't do them justice, they are 20x16", look as though they should be on the wall of some large country mansion. I suspect it may be my dad's grandparents as she looks a bit like my granny #socialhistory

This 1976 #book about #NewBrunswick #artifacts is #signed by both #authors. #Illustrated with #B&W #photos and #drawings. $25. #Booksky #antiques #tools #gadgets #SocialHistory #LocalHistory

As Scotland heads for a local government shake up here's the clergy for the final kirking of Kelso Town Council, replaced by Borders Council and Roxburgh District Council.Preacher is the Rev. Ewan Pinsent who is the father of Olympic rowing hero Sir Matthew Pinsent #socialhistory

Fifty years on and the cost of a funeral has escalated somewhat. A search would suggest the cost there is approximately £1,270.39 in today's prices. You're not getting a funeral for that today #socialhistory

If you were thinking of getting married in Kelso in 1968 the meal offering from the Queen's Head was this. Not sure what happened for evening do as price only seems to include hall until 6pm. Additional charge for piano #socialhistory

Thinking about fin-de-siecle women musicians led me to think about their #DomesticHelp at home. I allowed myself a day to check census returns. See what I discovered! karenmcaulaymusicologist.blog/2026/09/18/t...
#SocialHistory.
(THIS is what I do on semi-retirement days! Daytime TV? No thanks!)

I strayed away from musicology into pure #socialhistory ... thinking about running an Edwardian household!
'The Maid of All Work: Then and (Ahem!) Now'
karenmcaulaymusicologist.blog/2026/09/18/t...

I have written my heart out. The latest blog post took me all day to write, but wow, I feel better for it! The musicologist strays away from musicology into pure #SocialHistory ...
'The Maid of All Work: Then and (Ahem!) Now' karenmcaulaymusicologist.blog/2026/09/18/t...
#ReflectiveWriting

This is the first time we've seen this #book about #Africville. Originally published in 1974, this is the 3rd Edition (1999). #Illustrated with #B&W #photos. Some #highlighting and #underlining. $25. #Booksky #Blacks #NovaScotia #SocialHistory #displacement #racism

This 2-volume 1911 set from the #TrailMakersofCanada #series is being offered #AsIs due to a broken hinge in Volume I. It describes two #voyages #explorer #AlexanderMacKenzie took from #Montreal across #Canada in the late #18thCentury. $35. #Booksky #adventure #FurTrade #history #SocialHistory

This popular 1983 #book about #steamboats on the #StJohnRiver is getting harder to find...this one is #signed by Captain #DonaldTaylor. #Illustrated with #B&W #photos. $30. #Booksky #LocalHistory #SocialHistory #NewBrunswick #transportation

Came across this clearing a relative's house, no real historical importance but interesting about what it tells us about how things have changed. From 1972, my uncle letting my aunt know he had got home safely after dropping her off at hospital 50 miles away #socialhistory

RUS' AND MONGOL RULE presents the fullest examination in English to date of the economic and #socialhistory of Rus' from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries and the impact of #Mongol rule.
Learn more here:
https://cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501789311/rus-and-mongol-rule/#bookTabs=1

#SaintJohn #historian, #DavidGoss 's popular 2004 #book with #stories from the #WestSide is back in stock! #Illustrated with #B&W #photos. $20. #Bluesky #LocalHistory #SocialHistory #folklore #WestisBest #NewBrunswick

#CfP 📢 “Imagining Difference in Early Modern London”, Elm Bank, Coventry University

📆 22-23 March 2027 |🌍 London
⏰ 1 October 2026
🔗 www.rsa.org/news/733815

#EarlyModern #LondonHistory #MigrationHistory #SocialHistory

Milwaukee's historic welfare building, a site of protests and social reform, is one step closer to being recognized on the National Register as it transforms into workforce housing.

Learn more here!

#MilwaukeeMilwaukeeCounty #WI #CitizenPortal #WorkforceHousing #MilwaukeeWelfare #SocialHistory