Symes, Ruth A.
Family First: Tracing Relationships in the Past
(Pen and Sword, 2015).
Husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, children, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents - these are the relationships that structure the family tree and fascinate the family historian. But how much do we really know about how our ancestors lived out these multiple roles? Buffeted this way and that by economic developments, legal changes, medical advances, Two World Wars, the rise of the Welfare State, women's emancipation and many other factors, relationships between members of our family in the past were subtly different to those of today and continually transforming. This book is both a social history of the period 1800-1950 and a practical guide on how to set about tracing and better understanding the relationships between members of your own family. What did it mean to be a father in this period, but also, how might you discover the father of an ancestor if his name is not mentioned on the birth certificate? What common ideas were held about the role of wives and mothers, but also, how were multiple births, stillbirths, abortions and infanticides dealt with in the records? What factors might have influenced the size of your ancestor's family, but also why were its children named as they were? Did pecking order in a family matter, but also, was it legal to marry a cousin, or the sister of a deceased wife? How long could people expect to live, but also what records can tell you more about the circumstances of your ancestors' last years? A final chapter considers relationships with neighbours, friends and club associates. Hardback. New book, fine in dustwrapper. 223pp. Order No. NSBK-C15530
Keywords: 9781473833883, family relationships, family trees, geneaology, geneaological, social history, ancestors, tracing ancestors, fathers, mothers, siblings, cousins, women, welfare state, infants, clubs, grandparents
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Bock, Gisela & Thane, Pat, eds.
Maternity and Gender Policies: Women and the Rise of the European Welfare States, 1880s - 1950s
(Routledge, rpt, 1994).
Hardback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, otherwise very good in slightly creased dustwrapper. xiv + 259pp. Order No. NSBK-C2061
Keywords: 9780415047739, mothers, maternity, women, gender, welfare states, Europe, history, motherhood
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Leffingwell, Albert.
Illegitimacy and the Influence of Seasons Upon Conduct: Two Studies in Demography
(Swan Sonnenschein, 1892).
With maps and diagrams. Scarce. Hardback. Original red cloth darkened / soiled / stained, some wear to spine ends & corners, one map partly detached - otherwise good. viii + 160pp. Order No. NSBK-C10974
Keywords: B000HBZSGI, illegitimacy, illegitimate, mothers, single mothers, motherhood, demography, population, demographic, morals, morality, moral, women, women's history, 1890s, Victorian, 19th century, seasons, regions, regional, unmarried women, bastardy, poverty, infants, infancy, babies, birth, childbirth, chastity, birth rate, birth-rates, fertility, mortality, birth rates, birthrates, insanity, madness, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, pregnancy, expectant mothers, antiquarian
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Simon, Sir John.
Portrait of My Mother:
(Hodder & Stoughton, reprint, 1936).
Illustrated. Hardback. Some brown speckling / foxing to boards, otherwise good in slightly torn, soiled dw. 30pp. Order No. NSBK-C6084
Keywords: B000866SHU, women's history, Sir John Simon, mothers, mother, maternal, motherhood, Fanny Allsebrook Simon, Victorian, Victorian, women, biography, biographies, Britain, British, England, English, Manchester
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Liddiard, Mabel.
British Red Cross Society: Infant Welfare Manual. No 9
(J. & A. Churchill, third edition, 1933).
Hardback. Some fading and soiling to cloth, otherwise good. viii + 128pp. Order No. NSBK-A7277
Keywords: B000HC1154, health, history, British Red Cross Society, Red Cross, philanthropy, first aid, first-aid, medicine, medical, history, manuals, Britain, British, England, English, childhood, children, child, infants, infant, infant welfare, social welfare, mothers, motherhood, maternity, advice books, ante-natal, feeding children, babies, looking after babies, interwar, inter-war, inter war, baby, breast feeding, breast-feeding, bottle feeding, natural feeding, artifical feeding, teething, family, families
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Barnard, Mary.
Diary of an Optimist:
(The Larks Press, rpt., 1997).
Paperback. Very good+. 190pp. Order No. NSBK-C10352
Keywords: 0948400323, Mary Barnard, women, woman, women's studies, women's history, children, motherhood, mothers, twentieth century, Britain, British, England, English, home helps, rationing, food, clothing, shortages, teachers, education, counsellors, magistrates, journalists
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Basch, Francoise.
Relative Creatures: Victorian Women in Society and the Novel, 1837-1867
(Allen Lane, 1974).
Hardback. Some sun-fading to spine of dustwrapper, with newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, otherwise a good copy. xx + 360pp. Order No. NSBK-C4627
Keywords: 9780713904857, Victorian, nineteenth century, women, novels, novel, spinsters, spinster, history, wives, mothers, writing, society, social history, literature, social history, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, fiction, novelists, female, novelist, literary, England, English, Britain, British
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Clark, Alice.
Working Life of Women in the Seventeenth Century:
(RKP, rpt, 1982).
Paperback. Covers edge worn and faded, otherwise good. xliii + 328pp. Order No. NSBK-C6631
Keywords: 0710090455, Alice Clark, seventeenth century, women, women and work, working women, capitalism, labouring women, class, wives, widows, mothers, midwives, midwife, social history, England, Britain, English, British, 17th century, midwifery
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Hoffert, Sylvia D.
Private Matters: American Attitudes toward Childbearing and Infant Nurture in the Urban North, 1800-1860
(Illinois UP, 1989).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 229pp. Order No. NSBK-C7735
Keywords: 0252015479, American, America, USA, United States, children, child, infants, nurture, babies, motherhood, maternal, mothers, North America, nineteenth century, 19th, attitudes, baby, breastfeeding, childhood, maternity
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Chinn, Carl.
They Worked All Their Lives: Women of the Urban Poor in England, 1880-1939
(MUP, 1988).
Hardback. With a newspaper review pasted to front endpapers, otherwise very good in faded dustwrapper. xi + 187pp. Order No. NSBK-A15085
Keywords: 9780719024368, urban poor, poverty, Carl Chinn, working class, women's history, social history, British, English, England, Britain, Birmingham, Midlands, charity, mothers, motherhood, Reports, women's work, trade unions, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th century, twentieth century, self-help, community, communities, debt, Clementina Black, working women
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