JUST MEDIEVAL - MORAL DILEMMAS & SEX - SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY - LANGUAGES & DICTIONARYS - GOD-BOTHERERS
MANLY MEN - HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY - RECREATION & LEISURE - WOMEN & THE HOUSEHOLD
MEDICINE, HYGIENE & HEALTH - ACADEMIA & BUSINESS - LITERATURE & POETRY - CHILDREN

the library

Weirdly specific selected books from my vintage library.

So many really, mind-boggling books. Each section takes you to a whole new world of informative reading. These are grouped by general theme.

medieval books
Books specifically used for medieval research.
Some of these may be duplicated in other sections.
Most of these are not vintage.
moral dilemmas & sex
Something weighing heavily on your mind? Wishing you'd been warned about a peril into which you've inadvertantly fallen? Can a boy and girl be "just friends"?

god botherers
Religion. Where would we be without it? Probably having a very nice time, thank you. Meanwhile, keep yourself nice and we'll have none of THAT!

advice for women & household guides
Many are the questions that plague a girl on the brink of womanhood or a new mother, and with advice like this, it's a wonder we're here at all.

vintage children's books
Books which were banned and other much loved children's classics.

languages, dictionaries, & writing guides
Thinking you'd like to try your hand at something a little more exotic than French? Colonising a continent sometime soon? Is a hippopotamus eating your hut? How should you decline an engagement from a suitor?

literature & poetry
Classic reading from Beowulf to The Picture of Dorian Grey. Fiction and poetry from the ages for all ages.
manly men
Farmers, cottage builders, D.I.Y. lawyers, fishermen... advice for every man and manly pursuits!
academia & business
Mathemetics, shorthand, calculus. Some things never change and here's proof.
science & technology
Chemistry, physics, atomic power, geography and geology. Science has come a long, long way and we've learned a lot since this!
medicine, hygiene & health
In a time where euphamisms referred vaguely to "unmentionables" and "the curse", some startlingly graphic and illustrated advice.
recreation & leisure pursuits
Fancy some boy scouting? Feel you could be doing more with driftwood in your floral arrangements? Like to try out a "Boston?"
history & biography
(excluding medieval history)

Related with and without glaring omissions and horrendous racist undertones because it seemed the proper thing to do at the time. Times, they have a-changed.

 

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