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 Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together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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Randall, Vicky.
Women and Politics:
(Macmillan, 1982).
Paperback. Spine faded, with a newspaper review pasted to endpapers, otherwise good. x + 227pp. Order No. NSBK-C8754
Keywords: 0333307143, political, politics, women, political, feminism, feminist policy-making, women's movement
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English Tourist Board, Planning and Research Services Branch.
Scarborough District Tourism Study:
(English Tourist Board, 1981).
With statistical diagrams. Ringbound booklet. Ex library with minimal library stamps and stickers, otherwise good. 59pp. Order No. NSBK-A8355
Keywords: Scarborough, tourists, Yorkshire, tourism, history, coast, Yorkshire coast, leisure, holidays, holiday, social history, Britain, British, England, English, towns, English Tourist Board
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Mearns, Andrew.
The Bitter Cry of Outcast London: With leading articles from the Pall Mall Gazette of October 1883 and articles by Lord Salisbury, Joseph Chamberlain and Forster Crozier
(Humanities Press, Leicester University Press, 1970).
Edited and with an introduction by Anthony S. Wohl. Hardback. Very good. 155pp. Order No. NSBK-A6676
Keywords: 9780718550035, Bitter Cry of Outcast London, Andrew Mearns, Lord Salisbury, Joseph Chamberlain, Forster Crozier, social history, Anthony S. Wohl, poverty, urban history, London, metropolitan, Victorian, nineteenth century, Britain, British, England, English, Pall Mall Gazette, Methodism, Methodists, artisans' dwellings, housing, social conditions, living conditions, labour, labor, labourers, laborers, the poor, pauperism
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Donald, Joyce.
The Letters of Thomas Hayton: Vicar of Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire. 1821 - 1887
(Buckinghamshire Record Society, No 20, 1979).
Buckinghamshire Record Society. No 20. 1979. Hardback. A little soiling to cloth, otherwise very good. xx + 185pp. Order No. NSBK-A13330
Keywords: 0901198161, vicars, religion, religious, Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire, Buckinghamshire Record Society, 19th century, nineteenth century, Victorian, history, letters, Thomas Hayton, church, village life, agrarian, charity commissioners, poor law, social history, correspondence, curate, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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Stewart, Angus, ed.
Contemporary Britain:
(RKP, 1983).
Paperback. Spine creased, covers edge worn, otherwise good. ix + 262pp. Order No. NSBK-A11311
Keywords: 071009406X, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, social welfare, twentieth century, 20th, politics, political, social, race relations, middle class
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Various Authors, .
Titus of Salts:
(Watmoughs Ltd, 1976).
Paperback. Very good. 64pp. Order No. NSBK-A14918
Keywords: 0903775050, Saltaire, Titus of Salts, social history, philanthropy, Yorkshire, Bradford, industry, factories, factory system, mills, textiles, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, 19th century, nineteenth century
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Joyce, Patrick.
Work, Society & Politics: the Culture of the Factory in Later Victorian England
(Harvester Press, 1980).
Hardback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, otherwise good in slightly creased dustwrapper. xxv + 356pp. Order No. NSBK-A974
Keywords: 0855276800, factory, factories, nineteenth century, Victorian, England, English, Britain, British, social history, society, politics, class, paternalism, deference, labour, labor, 19th century, industry, factory system, Patrick Joyce, community, communities
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Mayhew, Henry.
The Morning Chronicle Survey of Labour and the Poor: The Metropolitan Districts. Volume 2
(Caliban Books, 1981).
Paperback. Spine a little browned. A few light marks to card covers, otherwise very good. 335pp. Order No. NSBK-A13115
Keywords: 0904573214, Victorian, 1840s, forties, 19th century, nineteenth century, labour, poor, poverty, Henry Mayhew, social surveys, social investigations, sanitation, oral history, wages, sweated labour, poor law, employment, hucksters, alcohol, drinking, housing, coal, pawn-broking, tailoring, pubs, publicans, public houses, London
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Anderson, Mosa.
Henry Joseph Wilson: Fighter for Freedom, 1833 - 1914
(James Clarke, 1953).
Foreword by Lord Pethick-Lawrence. Hardback. Ex library with minimal library markings. A little wear to edges, otherwise very good. 86pp. Order No. NSBK-A13638
Keywords: B000W6QBW8, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, biographies, biography, Henry Joseph Wilson, Josephine Butler, reformers, social reform, Holmfirth, social welfare, Ireland, Opium Commission, Home Rule, Contagious Diseases Acts, Lord Pethick-Lawrence, politics, political, Victorian, Edwardian, 19th century, nineteenth century
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