Life in Times Past
a Morrisson-Reeves Library Pathfinder
Morrisson-Reeves has hundreds of books to help you learn about
what life was
like in times past. Use the suggested search words below to
find what you need.
To SEARCH choose from the Public
Access Terminal (PAC) main MENU:
4. Series Title:
Daily Life
Daily Life Through History
Everyday life
Food & Feasts
What Life Was Like
or 8.
Keyword(s) from Title:
daily life
everyday life
what life was like
or 10.
Keyword(s) from Subject:
social life and customs
and add a specific country
or historic time period
also try children history
clothing history
cookery
cookery history
costume history
food habits
games history
manners and customs
schools history, etc.
with a specific country
or historic time period
e.g., social life and customs Ireland
cookery Medieval
clothing Victorian
children history Greece
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Some excellent series are listed
below:
“Daily Life” Series. (Macmillan).
913.34 A89 Daily life in ancient India: from approximately
200 B.C. to 700 A.D.
913.3973 C47 Daily life in Carthage at the time of Hannibal.
945.5 L933 Daily life in Florence in the time of the Medici.
944 R66 Daily life in the French Revolution.
972.014 S72 Daily life of the Aztecs, on the eve of the Spanish
conquest.
“Daily Life Through History” Series. (Greenwood
Press).
[Many more titles from this series are on order.]
Just rec’d Daily life during the Holocaust.
Just rec’d Daily life in Civil War America.
985 M25 Daily life in the Inca empire.
Just rec’d Daily life in the United States, 1960-1990:
decades of discord.
941.081 M68 Daily life in Victorian England.
972.81 S53 Daily life in the Maya civilization.
942.037 S61 Daily life in Chaucer’s England.
942.055 S61 Daily life in Elizabethan England.
Just rec’d Daily life of the ancient Greeks.
Just rec’d Daily life on the nineteenth century American
frontier.
“Everyday Life” Series. by Giovanni Casselli.
(Peter Bedrick).
j 945 C A Florentine merchant.
j 271 C A medieval monk.
j 355 C A Roman soldier.
j 948.9 C A Viking settler.
“Food and Feasts” Series. (New Discovery Books).
j 394.1 B Food & feasts between the two world wars.
j 394.1 B Food & feasts in ancient Egypt.
j 394.1 D Food & feasts in ancient Greece.
j 394.1 D Food & feasts in ancient Rome.
j 394.1 D Food & feasts in the Middle Ages.
j 394.1 M Food & feasts in Tudor times.
j 394.1 S Food & feasts with the Aztecs.
j 394.1 S Food & feasts with the Vikings
“What Life was Like” Series. (Time-Life Books).
[This series is on standing order. The library will receive
each new title when available.]
949.5 W55 What life was like amid splendor and intrigue:
Byzantine Empire, AD 330-1453.
941.5 W55 What life was like among druids and high kings:
Celtic Ireland, AD 400-1200.
938.5 W55 What life was like at the dawn of democracy: classical
Athens, 525-322 BC.
940.1 W55 What life was like in the age of chivalry: medieval
Europe, AD 800-1500.
On order What life was like in the jewel in the crown: British
India, AD 1600-1905.
951.024 W55 What life was like in the land of the dragon: imperial
China, AD 960-1368.
942.055 W55 What life was like in the realm of Elizabeth: England,
AD 1533-1603.
932 w55 What life was like on the banks of the Nile: Egypt,
3050-30 BC.
948 W55 What life was like when long ships sailed: Vikings,
AD 800-1100.
937 W55 What life was like when Rome ruled the world: the
Roman Empire, 100 BC-AD 200.
