Symes, R. A.
Tracing Your Ancestors Through Letters and Personal Writings: a Guide for Family Historians
(Pen and Sword, 2016).
Could your ancestors write their own names or did they mark official documents with a cross? Why did great-grandfather write so cryptically on a postcard home during the First World War? Why did great-grandmother copy all the letters she wrote into letter-books? How unusual was it that great-uncle sat down and wrote a poem, or a memoir? Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together and managing their collective affairs. With industrialisation, improved education, and far more geographical mobility, British people of all classes were writing for new purposes, with new implements, in new styles, using new modes of expression and new methods of communication (e.g. telegrams and postcards). Our ancestors had an itch for scribbling from the most basic marks (initials, signatures and graffiti on objects as varied as trees, rafters and window ledges), through more emotionally-charged kinds of writing such as letters and diaries, to more creative works such as poetry and even fiction. This book shows family historians how to get the most out of documents written by their ancestors and, therefore, how better to understand the people behind the words. Paperback. New book, fine. ix + 270pp. Order No. NSBK-A15529
Keywords: 9781473855434, family, geneaology, family trees, geneaological, diaries, social history, family historians, ancestors, literacy, correspondence, journals, autobiographies, signatures, commonplace books
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Cobbett, William.
Journal of a Year's Residence in the United States of America:
(Alan Sutton, rpt, 1983).
Paperback. Very good. 327pp. Order No. NSBK-A4594
Keywords: 0862991005, USA, United States of America, American, history, British, Britain, English, England, radicals, nineteenth century, radicalism, North Hempstead, Long Island, countryside, William Cobbett, journals
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Brivati, Brian and Cockett, Richard, eds.
Anatomy of Decline: The Political Journalism of Peter Jenkins
(Cassell, 1995).
With an introduction by Polly Toynbee and Foreword by David Owen. Hardback. Near fine in slightly edge-worn dustwrapper. Book plate stuck to fly leaf. 247pp. Order No. NSBK-A10134
Keywords: 0304344761, politics, political, Peter Jenkins, journalism, journalists, twentieth century, media, newspapers, journals, Magazines, Washington correspondent
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Gressley, Gene M, ed.
Bostonians and Bullion: The Journal of Robert Livermore, 1892-1915
(University of Nebraska Press, rpt., 1968).
Hardback. Very good in slightly soiled dustwrapper. xxix + 193pp. Order No. NSBK-A8389
Keywords: 0803201052, Robert Livermore, journals, Bostonians, American, America, nineteenth century, twentieth century, mines, mining, mining management, Robert Livermore's Journal, Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, San Juan Mountains, Smuggler Union mine, Telluride, Colorado, Canada, Canadian, Cobalt, pits, Boston
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Vigne, Thea, ed.
Oral History: the Journal of the Oral History Society. Family History Issue
(University of Essex, 1975).
Volume 3: Number 2. Paperback. Light soiling and fading to covers, otherwise good+. 64pp. Order No. NSBK-A13980
Keywords: B001ERIRIK, journals, oral history, family history, geneaology, Thea Vigne, Paul Thompson
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Centre d'Investigacio Historica Dona, .
Duoda: Papers de Treball
(Centre d'Investigacio Historica Dona, University of Barcelona, 1991).
Centre d'Investigacio Historica de la Dona: 2: 1991. Paperback. Very good. 197pp. Order No. NSBK-A11220
Keywords: Centre d'Investigacio Historica de la Dona, University of Barcelona, history, papers de treball, journals, Spain, Spanish,
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Muggeridge, Kitty and Adam, Ruth.
Beatrice Webb: A Life, 1858-1943
(Academy Chicago, rpt, 1983).
Paperback. Marginal ink notation (very marginal), otherwise good. 271 + vipp. Order No. NSBK-C5304
Keywords: 0897330889, Beatrice Webb, Webb, Webbs, biography, biographies, life histories, life history, women's history, Fabian society, left, Sudney Webb, London School of Economics, The New Statesman, social reform, Modern Welfare State, journals, diary, diaries, socialists, socialism, Stalin, Russia, women's movement, feminism, feminist, Herbert Spencer, Balfour, Haldane, G. B. Shaw
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Wheeler, Barry, ed.
Spare the Rod: Journal of a Victorian Schoolmaster in Dorset, 1863 - 64
(Winterbourne Press, 1988).
Booklet. Spine faded, covers lightly soiled, otherwise good. 36pp. Order No. NSBK-A13308
Keywords: 0950828947, Dorset, Victorian, 19th, century, nineteenth, history, schools, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, education, 1860s, journals, teachers, diaries, booklet
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Pottle, Frederick A.
Boswell's London Journal, 1762-1763:
(William Heinemann, rpt., 1951).
Now first published from the original manuscript prepared for the press with an introduction and notes by Frederick A. Potttle. Hardback. Covers soiled and spine edges slightly torn, otherwise good+. xiii + 370pp. Order No. NSBK-A12438
Keywords: B000HGIENM, Boswell, diary, diaries, eighteenth century, 18th, journals
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Feminist Studies, .
Feminist Studies: Volume 28 Number 2
(Feminist Studies, Summer 2002).
Paperback. Near fine. 251-457pp. Order No. NSBK-C10087
Keywords: feminism, feminists, women, woman, gender, Volume 28, journals, twentieth century, 20th
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