British Popular Customs Past and Present

🔖 The Reverend Thomas Firminger Thistelton Dyer, MA, Oxon (1848-1923) was educated at King's College School and at Pembroke College, Oxford. He was successively curate of St John's Church, Fitzroy Square, curate of Holy Trinity Church, Kilburn, vicar of St Paul's Church, Penzance, secretary of the South American Missionary Society and rector of Bayfield, Holt, Norfolk. He was the author of a number of well-received non-fiction books, most famously Strange Pages from Family Papers which was considered a masterpiece of popular historical writing, and he was particularly admired for his ability to couple in-depth research with the suspense and excitement normally associated with the nascent art of detective fiction. This work Illustrating the Social and Domestic Manners of the People Arranged According to the Calendar of the Year was first published in 1875 and is reprinted from an edition of 1911.