Great source of FREE Social History books.
I love reading Social History.
Particularly fascinated by what day to day life was like in the 1800's, and in Victorian/Edwardian England.
Once you start with this sort of thing, it makes reading Austen and Trollope and Dickens, etc. so much more understandable.
So, here is a treasure trove:
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=Social%20Life%20and%20Customs
The very first book on the long long long iist is
"Manners and Customs of Polite Society" written in ...1896!
Other titles cover first hand accounts of cultures all over the world, most of them pre-1900, so you get a very good idea of what life was really like in specific places.
Best of all, with the FREE calibre program, you can download any of these books in one of several formats available and then convert the books into a format for your e-reader
or
read it IN the calibre program, which I often do, because of the way it displays graphics, maps, line drawn illustrations, etc.
Right now I am reading the hardback version of Liza Picard's "Life in Dr. Johnson's London" about customs, daily life in 1700's.
Page after page of " Wow..I did not know that".
anyone else here really into Social History?
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