Symes, Ruth A.
It Runs in the Family:
(The History Press, 2013).
In the quest to uncover our family history, we turn to written records, the family album and even heirlooms. However, they can often be difficult to interpret and sometimes pose more questions than they answer: Why didn't my ancestors smile for the camera? Why did great-grandfather wear a beard while his sons were clean-shaven? Why is my great-grandmother holding flowers in this photograph? Drawing on evidence from social history, women's history, and the histories of photography, art and fashion, and using examples from the lowly as well as the famous, Ruth Symes explores many aspects of ordinary life in the past - from the state of the nation's teeth, to the legal and economic connotations of wearing a wedding ring and even the business of keeping a dog. This fascinating volume aims to help family historians get to know their elusive ancestors by deciphering the wealth of personal and historical clues contained in photographs, documents and artefacts. Paperback. New book, fine. 160pp. Order No. NSBK-D15428
Keywords: 9780752497020, family history, family, families, Ruth Symes, genealogy, geneaolgical, social history, evidence, sources, research, women, old photographs, photography
Price £13.99.
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Gaisford, John, ed.
Times Gone By: A Photographic Record of Great Britain 1856-1956
(Select Editions, 1977).
Hardback. Very good. 223pp. Order No. NSBK-A2886
Keywords: 085685316X, photographs, Britain, British, England, English, history
Price £8.00.
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Boumphrey, Ian and Marilyn.
Yesterday's Wirral: Neston, Parkgate and Heswall
(Ian and Marilyn Boumphrey, rpt., 1987).
Richly illustrated with black and white photographs. Yesterday's Wirral No 1. Paperback. Oversize book, very good. 64pp. Order No. NSBK-A10636
Keywords: 0950725501, Wirral, Neston, Parkgate, Heswall, North, North-West, North West, photos, photographs, images, Britain, British, England, English, history
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Stanley, Oliver; Buchan, John, Bressey, C. H.
British Bridges: an Illustrated Technical and Historical Record
(Public Works, Roads, Transport Congress, 1933).
With many photographic illustrations. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings. Splitting / cracking damage to exterior of spine, with some wear to all edges. Otherwise overall good. xxiv + 498pp. Order No. NSBK-A14968
Keywords: B000RZAQPW, bridges, history, technical, transport, history, technology, roads, infrastructure, public works, bridge, towns, crossing points, photos, photographs, pictures, illustrations
Price £35.00.
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Penney, Stephen H.
Lancaster: the Evolution of its Townscape to 1800
(Centre for North-West Regional Studies, 1891).
Paperback. Very good. 47pp. Order No. NSBK-A14470
Keywords: 0901699756, Lancaster, Lancashire, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, towns, urban, town development, Centre for North-West Regional Studies, archaeology, photographs, Roman Lancaster, medieval Lancaster
Price £9.50.
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Preston, Robert.
Days at the Coast:
(Richard Stenlake, 1994).
Richly illustrated with black and white photographs. Paperback. Good+. 100pp. Order No. NSBK-A12656
Keywords: 1872074421, coast, seaside, resorts, coastal, photographs, photography, Edwardian, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, twentieth century, 20th
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Motz, Marilyn Ferris.
True Sisterhood: Michigan Women and their Kin, 1820-1920
(New York State UP, 1983).
Hardback. Very good. 199pp. Order No. NSBK-C5274
Keywords: 0873957156, Michigan, USA, United States, America, American, women, American women's history, sisterhood, home, family, nineteenth century, Victorian, kin network, Marilyn Ferris Motz, white women, Protestant, twentieth century, Bentley Library, correspondence, letters, diary, diaries, photographs, language, cult of domesticity, women's history, house
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Creighton, John.
Cheshire: a Portrait in Words and Pictures
(Sigma Press, 1987).
Paperback. Good. 156pp. Order No. NSBK-A14071
Keywords: 1850580928, Cheshire, illustrations, photographs, history, towns, mills, stately homes
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Williams, Peter and Hayes, Janice, eds.
Warrington as it Was:
(Hendon Publishing Co Ltd, 5th impression, 1986).
Paperback. Very good. 40pp. Order No. NSBK-A14121
Keywords: 086067052X, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Warrington, Lancashire, Cheshire, North West England, industry, shops, retail, old photographs, retailing
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Weightman, Gavin.
The Seaside:
(Collins & Brown, 1991).
Pictures from the Past Series. Paperback. Sticky mark to rear inner cover, wrinkling to base of rear pages, otherwise good. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-A2949
Keywords: 185648131X, seaside, holidays, social history, photographs, sea, coast, resort, holiday, Britain, British, England, English, history, Scarborough, Brighton, Blackpool, day trips
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